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Why Should 2nd Graders Play With Blocks?

My students need unifix cubes to learn place value.

This project is fully funded

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Mrs. Royal Uplift Williams Preparatory Charter School
Dallas, TX Grades PreK-2

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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 end of the year goal for my 2nd Grade Class is to have them at ready for 2nd Grade. What? Yes! My students, 90%, have spent the first two years of school just trying to understand and speak English. Next year they take their first State standardized test. Panic! Deep Breath. We can do this!

My school population is 92% English Language Learners and 92% free lunch qualified.

AND...100% of our Seniors are accepted to college. YES! I am a part of this big dream. We live, breath and talk college to our students from the moment they enter Kindergarten until they graduate. We don't stop there. We are also committed to our next big goal: an 80% college graduation rate. If you could see where our students come from you would think we are crazy to believe such big things for them! But if you looked into their eyes everyday like I do you would move mountains to help make their dreams come true! I am a second grade teacher. My part of the dream making may seem small but it is Absolutely Essential! I am teaching concepts that form the very foundation of their future learning. I teach noun, verbs, and adjectives. I teach sentence structure, base 10, and number sense. Every one of these concepts I don't get across becomes a barrier for them to fight later. Pressure? Yes! But I love it!

My Project

My students will use these unfix cubes to understand how numbers work. My Problem: I have a box of base ten blocks which are cubes that are already fused into tens, hundreds and thousands. The fact that my students can't take them apart and put them together again is making it almost impossible for them to understand place value. Of my 24 students 2 Really understand that 15 is a 10 and 5 ones. My Plan: Each of my students will have 50 unifix cubes to manipulate. When given a two digit number they will count out that many cubes. They will group the cubes into sets of ten with some loose cubes left over. This way they will understand that all numbers are made up of sets of tens and extra ones. Our number system is a Base Ten system. The second, and more difficult, task is understanding that adding and subtracting are not a memory trick but a regrouping of sets of ten and extra ones. Unifix cubes are the most effective and efficient way to teach these concepts.

My Big Goal in math this year is to teach all 24 of my students number sense/place value using Math Talk and unfix cubes.

If I can do this I will set them up for success for the next 10 years of math instruction! We are underfunded and short on math manipulative's. Most of our teachers do not have unifix cubes to use much less share. Thank you for helping us make college a reality, not just a dream, one grade at a time.

Equity Focus

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households

24 students impacted 3 donors
Mrs. Royal Uplift Williams Preparatory Charter School Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than three‑quarters 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

24 students impacted 3donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
TY4200 - Unifix® Cubes - 1,000 Cubes • Lakeshore Learning Materials $109.99 1 $109.99
TY217 - Unifix® 1-10 Stair • Lakeshore Learning Materials $7.99 1 $7.99

Materials cost

$117.98

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.77

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$149.75

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$26.43

Total project goal

$176.18

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $176.18

3 Donors

-$176.17

Donations toward project cost

-$149.75

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$26.42

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.01

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 $0.00

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