My students need an iPad mini with case, play money and checkbooks, and money skill games to practice real life math and functional skills
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My Students
I teach in a special needs classroom for students with moderate to severe disabilities. My goal is to teach my students to function as independently as they each possibly can. I want my students to be able to understand how to care for themselves and do simple tasks like use their own money.
My students are all special needs students with varying disabilities, needs, and functioning levels.
We try to work daily on their independent skills and also expose them to grade level content and experiences with their peers. My students work on various skills that include: socialization, communication, turn taking, colors, numbers, toileting, dressing/undressing, and simply writing their name or address. We also focus on grade level skills to the best of our ability and get exposed to concepts like main idea, allusions, analogies, figurative language, functions, linear equations, volume, and surface area. Every day is a very unique experience.
My Project
My students will use the iPad during daily center rotations to focus on math skills. Particularly math skills related to their IEP goals and this includes: addition/subtraction with or without regrouping and identifying/counting coins and bills. My students struggle daily to remember coins and/or bills and their values. We have not even mastered identification to begin counting and adding money. We are going to practice identification on the iPad with various apps and the IXL math program. The pretend money and checks will be used in activities with the menu math book. We will also pretend and practice using money in role play situations and then transfer that to the real world in community based instruction opportunities. We will also practice our money skills with the board games and invite non-disabled peers to join us for this. This will allow my students to practice turn-taking, socialization with their non-disabled peers, and also money skills.
My school is located in a high poverty area.
Any donation will allow my students to have access to many things they will not see at home. They will be afforded the opportunity to use technology to aid in learning, learn a functional skill with money, and also build socialization skills. All of these things are very important for any individual with a significant disability.
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
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