Young Mathematicians!

Funded Nov 6, 2023

Thank you again for your generous donations. I really appreciate your willingness to fund my first ever DonorsChoose. Please know that your donations are being out to good use. I am using the rekenrek daily with students who are learning to count by 10s and conceptualize two-digit numbers. Expo markers help me record student thinking and utilize visual models to support conceptual understanding. Write and wipe boards allow students to solve problems on number lines and using tens frames.

Students learn by first grappling with concrete situations and tools, then building representational models, and finally thinking in abstraction. The hands on materials your donations provided are key in concept mastery.

I wish for us all that our culture shifts toward valuing public education above corporate profits and that our so-called representatives that vote to fund schools so that we no longer need to crowd-source for $200 for school supplies. Let's create a world in which DonorsChoose stops existing because there is no need.”

With gratitude,

Ms. Hiser