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Ms. McCoy from Philadelphia, PA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Math Manipulatives for Young Minds

Help me give my students magnetic dry erase boards, a ten-frames set, and other math manipulatives to help them develop a stronger understanding of larger numbers.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. McCoy's classroom raised $258

This project is fully funded

My Students

All of my students love learning but their ability levels vary greatly. I have a class of 20 with 4 students who are in special education. Their diverse backgrounds include some with regular exposure to books and others with little to no "out of the classroom" experience. The majority of my students have a challenging and difficult home life. The school is a Title I school that has over 90% of the population is low income. We also have a large foster care population.

The school is a public school in an urban community.

Recently, the school district suffered a deficit and all of its schools suffered a financial loss including loss of vital staff members and lack of school supplies. Most of the students only come to school supplied with pencils, crayons, and a few composition books that will need to be replenished by mid-year.

My Project

Math manipulatives make learning fun! Tactile learning builds a more personal understanding of math concepts. Manipulatives help construct an understanding of ideas. Manipulatives also help students test their reasoning.

Second-grade math starts with adding numbers up to 20.

The best strategy to teach this is counting on a ten frame. My students can practice grouping, adding, and skip counting with these ten frames. Second grade is when students begin to add double-digit numbers. By being able to use the write and wipe hundreds charts, my students will be able to use the patterns on the hundreds chart to visually see how to add two addends.

Ms. McCoy Samuel Pennypacker Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Philadelphia, PA View local requests

Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

20 students impacted 4donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
GA920 - Ten-Frames Class Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
PH345 - Magnetic Write Wipe Board - 18 x 24 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
AA651 - Building Math Skills Write Wipe Boards - K-Gr 2 - Set of 30 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
DD468 - Visualize Math Write Wipe Boards • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
JJ484 - Write Wipe Student Clocks - Set of 10 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $12.99 2 $25.98
LC471 - Jumbo Magnetic Ten-Frames - Set of 4 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 1 $19.99

Materials cost

$185.93

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.79

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$218.72

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$38.60

Total project goal

$257.32

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$257.32

2 Donors

-$116.86

Donations toward project cost

-$109.36

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

Matching donations from our partners

-$128.66

Match offers toward project cost

-$109.36

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$19.30

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$11.80

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$0.00

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