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Mrs. Summey from Spartanburg, SC is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Tackling Math with Multilingual Learners

Help me give my students ,who are multilingual learners, the tools and visuals they need to learn math concepts with equity.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Summey's classroom raised $894

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My Project

Math is NOT a "universal language". In order to provide our newcomer learners math equity within the classroom, we need to have a wide variety of math manipulative tools, scaffolds, and determine the academic vocabulary that students will need to meet the language demands, and rigor of the math lesson.

The challenge to teaching math to multilingual learners lies not only in making math lessons comprehensible, but also ensuring that students have the language needed to understand and express their grasp of math concepts both orally and through written language.

The materials that I am requesting, will allow me to create a fun, meaningful, and equitable math environment in my multilingual classroom. These materials will allow me to provide & present a math professional development to my colleagues, supporting them with strategies, demonstrations, and techniques that can be used daily to support our multilingual learners in the General Education classroom.

All math manipulatives will be stored in student tackle boxes. At the start of of math lessons together, we will use the phrase, "Let's Tackle Math!" Each math lesson will be preceded by an academic vocabulary lesson. Math sentence frames will be introduced during the mini-lesson, and are crucial in serving a variety of purposes with multilingual learners. Sentence frames help to contextualize and bring meaning to vocabulary, they allow differentiated instruction, and they provide a structure for practicing, extending, and students' use of vocabulary in grammatically correct and complete sentences.

"We can do better. We trivialize their language-acclimation process when we expect them to keep up because “math is math.” Let’s give up talk of a “universal language.” The only universal language is the one we make by doing the hard work of communicating with each other." -Jay Wamsted

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Spartanburg, SC
Grades 3-5
English Language Learning
Traditional School
Educational Kits & Games
Nearly all students from low‑income households

Mrs. Summey Jesse S Bobo Elementary School Grades 3-5

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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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Materials Cost Quantity Total

Lakeshore Area & Perimeter Hands-On Student Pack • Lakeshore Learning Materials $8.99 12 $107.88

Lakeshore Place Value Hands-On Student Pack • Lakeshore Learning Materials $8.99 12 $107.88

Lakeshore Ten-Frames Hands-On Student Pack • Lakeshore Learning Materials $8.99 12 $107.88

Lakeshore Base 10 Hands-On Student Pack • Lakeshore Learning Materials $8.99 12 $107.88

Flambeau Outdoors 6009TD Lil' Brute Fishing Tackle and Gear Box with Lift-Out Tray, Blue • Amazon Business $6.96 12 $83.52

Newpath Math Vocabulary Cards, Grades 3 to 5 - Elementary - Kids • School Specialty $32.09 1 $32.09

edxeducation Double-Sided Geoboard Set - Set of 6 with Rubber Bands - Ages 3+ - Math Manipulatives, Geometry, Fine Motor Skills, Creativity for Kids - 5 x 5 Grid/12 Pin Circular Array • Amazon Business $14.40 2 $28.80

Lakeshore Student Write & Wipe Number Lines - Whole Numbers • Lakeshore Learning Materials $21.99 1 $21.99

Carson Dellosa Mini Judy Clock Telling Time Clock Set, 12 Mini Judy Clocks, 4" x 4" Telling Time Teaching Clocks for Kids, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade Telling Time Manipulatives • Amazon Business $16.68 1 $16.68

140 Pcs Mini 3D Shapes for Teaching, Wood Geometric Solids, Geometric Shapes 3D Shape Blocks, Classroom Manipulatives for Elementary School for Kids Geometry Math Kindergarten Preschool Learning • Amazon Business $12.79 1 $12.79

Carson-Dellosa Learning Cards Math Word Wall, Grade 1, 60 Cards/Set (145112) • Quill.com $12.23 1 $12.23

Rainbow Sentence Strips • Lakeshore Learning Materials $7.99 1 $7.99

Materials cost			$647.61
Vendor shipping charges			$26.29
Sales tax			$45.66
3rd party payment processing fee			$9.71
Fulfillment labor & materials			$30.00
Total project cost			$759.27
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			$133.99
Total project goal			$893.26
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal			$893.26
5 Donors			-$496.63
Donations toward project cost			-$422.14
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			-$74.49
match offer			-$396.62
Match offer toward project cost			-$337.13
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			-$59.49
Excluded support for DonorsChoose			-$0.01
Still needed View calculation Hide calculation			$0.00

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Tackling Math with Multilingual Learners

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

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