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Mrs. Golas from Lake Alfred, FL is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Math Mania!

My students need 5 Math resources, including a Calendar Math Activity Program an All-About-Math Photo library and a set of Instant Math learning centers.

  • $525 goal

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Keep Math in Mind! After all, everyday we use math to purchase food, sort out clothes for the day, and to keep track of time. As a kindergarten teacher, my job is to help lay the foundation for a lifetime of learning and loving math. However, in a low income community with few math manipulatives, laying a gap-free foundation becomes tricky at best!

My students love math, but trying to teach some of the concrete lessons without materials is difficult, and teaching the abstract without examples is almost impossible. This year I had the task of teaching about 3D objects like pyramids, cylinders, and spheres with few, if any, hands-on examples. Trying to discuss how a cone can slide and roll without one to look at was very trying for many of my students. Concepts like fractions and symmetry are hard enough for five year olds who get many examples depicting these principals, but when materials limit your class to only learning by experimenting with paper and scissor, the task becomes very taxing. My students have tried their best, but a little help from you and I know my students will be experiencing success!

We only need some hands-on resources for my students to become math maniacs! With your help, I can have enough 3D shapes for all of my students to hold and observe as we do our shape study. I can get Instant Learning Centers that will help my students practice their latest math concept with step by step picture instructions! With a photo library I can show my students many examples of symmetry, fractions, and many other math concepts! And with the Calendar program I can organize our morning math lessons and devote more time to student interaction and less time to changing our calendars and patterns!

Can you imagine a world where people cannot tell time? How could business survive? Can you imagine a world where people cannot tell the difference between shapes? How could people understand road signs? These are simple skills whose foundations are laid in Kindergarten. Please do not let my students' math foundations be filled with holes because they lacked hands-on materials in school! Keep math in mind and help my class become math maniacs!

Mrs. Golas
Grades PreK-2
    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

    This project will reach 18 students.

    8 donors have given to this project.

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
TT950X - Early Math Instant Learning Centers - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning $179.00 1 $179.00
GG791 - Calendar Math Activity Program • Lakeshore Learning $99.00 1 $99.00
AA246 - All About Math Photo Library • Lakeshore Learning $39.95 1 $39.95
WA704 - Plastic Geometric Shapes • Lakeshore Learning $29.95 1 $29.95
LA237 - Hands-On Beginning Geometry Kit • Lakeshore Learning $29.95 1 $29.95

Materials cost

$377.85

Vendor shipping charges

 $37.79

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 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.67

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$430.30

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$94.46

Total project goal

$524.76

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $524.76

8 Donors

-$524.39

Donations toward project cost

-$430.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$94.39

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