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Ms. Smeragliuolo from Staten Island NY is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Path to Math

Help me give my students opportunities for hands-on engagement during math lessons in the comfort of their own homes with a hand2mind Daily Math Fluency Kit.

  • $298 goal

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My Students

I have the privilege to teach some of the sweetest 5-6 year olds you will ever meet. My students are part of District 75, a highly specialized restrictive special education environment for students with disabilities. They love to learn, and engage in hands-on activities. Together, we work as a community to achieve their academic, and social-emotional goals.

My students are a unique bunch of first graders with special needs.

They have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and Down syndrome; but despite their differences, they come to school eager to learn and grow every single day.

My Project

My students have various learning disabilities that affect their cognitive ability to understand math concepts. When introducing math concepts to children with autism, it's important for us as teachers to use the concrete-to-abstract principle which means to start from concrete examples and slowly progress to more abstract ideas. This has been difficult during this time of remote learning.

In order to see success in the understanding of mathematical principles for students with ASD, we must give children the opportunity to see, feel, touch, or even smell different objects from their surroundings.

Unfortunately, most kids do not have proper math manipulatives to use in their homes, which makes it difficult to introduce math concepts.

Ms. Smeragliuolo
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
hand2mind Daily Math Fluency Kit for Kids (Grade K+) - Counting All, Counting on, and Counting Back • Amazon Business $219.99 1 $219.99

Materials cost

$219.99

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.30

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$253.29

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$44.70

Total project goal

$297.99

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$297.99

2 Donors

-$149.00

Donations toward project cost

-$126.65

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.35

match offer

-$148.99

Match offer toward project cost

-$126.64

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.35

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$0.00

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