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Mr. Collins from Durham, NC is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Taking a New Path to Our Learning Experience

Help me give my students supplementary resources to help reinforce their math skills in efforts to achieve mastery.

FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Collins's classroom raised $358

This project is fully funded

My Students

These highly energetic rising 6th graders are more visually inclined and learn best when physical objects are accessible to help them make sense of problem-solving. I, therefore, desire to utilize effective best practice strategies that will allow me to meet their learning strengths and give them the best opportunity to continue to grow and develop in their conceptual understanding.

However, there may come a time when our students experience a disconnect when transitioning to middle school, and the strategies that accommodate their learning styles become a lost art; therefore, we must find out how to restore the structure in which they were successful in.

These students come from various cultures and backgrounds and will benefit from being exposed to the world that they have yet to experience.

Therefore, when they are engaged with resources and learning experiences outside of their cultures and socio-economic realms, they will become more well-rounded and positioned to be successful in their 21st-century learning experiences.

My Project

Transitioning to middle school brings challenges both socially and academically. Many students experience an easier transition when the resources that they utilize are aligned with the resources that shaped their academic development and conceptual understanding.

Particularly with math, many students experience a disconnect from elementary to middle school concepts and structures in terms of small groups and station activity.

Such a disconnect can be greatly minimized with consistent ongoing use of effective and meaningful math stations.

As a result, I will utilize the "New Path Learning Center" activities to reacquaint them with the hands-on manipulatives and resources that helped build and develop their mathematical conceptual understanding. This resource will used to reinforce our standard-based concepts, reteaching and differentiating instruction. It will also serve as an excellent visual learning aid and to support English language learners. This will allow me to create specific learning centers for volume, fraction operations, integer operations and organizing and displaying data.

Mr. Collins Sherwood Githens Middle School Grades 6-8

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Durham, NC View local requests

More than half 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

HBCU Alum 97 students impacted 4donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
NewPath Learning Math Learning Center - Multiplying and Dividing Integers • Nasco $19.95 2 $39.90
NewPath Learning Math Learning Center - Multiplying Dividing Fractions • Nasco $21.95 1 $21.95
NewPath Learning Math Learning Center - Problem-Solving Strategies • Nasco $21.95 1 $21.95
NewPath Learning Math Learning Center - Collecting Displaying Data • Nasco $21.95 1 $21.95
NewPath Learning Math Learning Center - Fraction Concepts • Nasco $21.95 1 $21.95
NewPath Learning Math Learning Center - Adding Subtracting Fractions • Nasco $21.95 1 $21.95
NewPath Learning Math Learning Center - Finding Volume • Nasco $19.95 1 $19.95
NewPath Learning Math Learning Center - Introduction to Integers • Nasco $19.95 1 $19.95
NewPath Learning Math Learning Center - Adding and Subtracting Integers • Nasco $19.95 1 $19.95
NewPath Learning Math Learning Center - Organizing and Displaying Data • Nasco $19.95 1 $19.95

Materials cost

$229.45

Vendor shipping charges

 $22.94

Sales tax

 $17.90

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.44

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$303.73

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$53.60

Total project goal

$357.33

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $357.33

4 Donors

-$357.33

Donations toward project cost

-$303.73

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$53.60

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