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Mrs. Putnam from Afton, WY is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mathematicians Who Play!

Help me give my students math manipulatives and games to enhance our classroom engagement, cooperation, and higher thinking.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Putnam's classroom raised $702

This project is fully funded

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

My students live in a very small town with a population of approximately 2,000 people. We are nestled in the Rocky Mountains and enjoy beautiful views and are surrounded by wildlife. We are hours away from big city life and enjoy life in a simple way.

My students love a challenge, setting goals, and learning how to work together to achieve them.

The students I work with are talented, hardworking, team players, and love learning. I work with a variety of students, including high needs, autistic students learning how to be in the general education setting, and students who are gifted in regards to academics. I have students from many socio-economic backgrounds and coming from homes with different family situations.

This range of diverse students and personalities makes our learning environment a great place to grow from one another's experiences and the students all have different experiences they bring to our classroom. My students are incredible at whatever they set their minds to and surprise me every day with how much they accomplish.

My Project

Children come to us with diverse backgrounds in math. We need to try to equalize the field and allow all of our children the chance to be exposed to math through play and STEM. My students will utilize resources such as manipulatives like number lines, and number bond slides so that their reasoning can develop starting with concrete math learning. This will be occurring during whole group teaching and then transfer over to our STEM station so that they can have the autonomy to utilize these items on their own. By having access to items like number sense activities and pop math games, they can build math sense through fun and learning,

By giving students manipulatives, they can construct an understanding of mathematical ideas that they can connect to symbols and vocabulary.

Using these can help students make the transitions from concrete to abstract thinking.

Please help my students to have the optimal experiences with math, thinking, working collaboratively, and reasoning, through games and manipulatives during my classroom instruction. These games and concrete manipulatives will allow them to really work on building number sense and work towards abstract reasoning for future STEM projects.

Mrs. Putnam Afton 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.

Afton, WY View local requests

More than a third of 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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
LM980X - Lakeshore Math Counters Library 2 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $149.00 1 $149.00
LM250X - Grab Play Math Games - Gr 1-2 - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $129.00 1 $129.00
HH965X - Pop Add Games - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $89.99 1 $89.99
DD267 - Snap Slide Number Bonds - Set of 4 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 2 $59.98
PP514 - Hands-On Number Grid • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
LL609 - Tactile Number Lines - Set of 30 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
EE657 - Teaching Number Sense Activity Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99

Materials cost

$557.94

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.37

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$596.31

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$105.23

Total project goal

$701.54

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $701.54

2 Donors

-$354.89

Donations toward project cost

-$303.16

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$51.73

match offer

-$344.88

Match offer toward project cost

-$293.15

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$51.73

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.77

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 $0.00

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