You're on track to get doubled donations (and unlock a reward for the colleague who referred you). Keep up the great work!
Take credit for your charitable giving! Check out your tax receipts

In a rush to make a major tax-deductible gift before the year's end?
Purchase account credits and choose projects later!

In a rush to make a major tax-deductible gift before the year's end? Purchase account credits and choose projects later!

For direct assistance with credits or anything else, please call our donor relationships team: (646) 586-5306 ext. 202

Donate
To use your $50 gift card credits, find a project to fund and we'll automatically apply your credits at checkout. Find a classroom project
Skip to main content

Help teachers & students in your hometown this season!
Use code HOME at checkout and your donation will be matched up to $100.

Your school email address was successfully verified.

Edit classroom photo

Mrs. Richardson's Classroom Edit display name

  • Townsell Elementary School
  • Irving, TX
  • 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

Support her classroom with a gift that fosters learning.

  • Monthly
  • One-time

We'll charge your card today and send Mrs. Richardson a DonorsChoose gift card she can use on her classroom projects. Starting next month, we'll charge your card and send her a DonorsChoose gift card on the 17th of every month.

Edit or cancel anytime.

cancel

Support Mrs. Richardson's classroom with a gift that fosters learning.

  • Monthly
  • One-time

We'll charge your card today and send Mrs. Richardson a DonorsChoose gift card she can use on her classroom projects. Starting next month, we'll charge your card and send her a DonorsChoose gift card on the 17th of every month.

Edit or cancel anytime.

Make a donation Mrs. Richardson can use on her next classroom project.

https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/3823178 Customize URL

View your stats
Track donations »
Edit
In a world where we swipe our cards, or pay with an app, our students are becoming less familiar with concepts of money. Unfortunately, that can be seen with the average American increasing their amount of debt monthly. Students used to easily identify quarters from video games, or vending machines. However, even many of the popular arcade places use a "token card" now instead of coins. My project aims to enable students to manipulate money on a daily basis as they learn to earn, save and spend their coins responsibly. Positive behaviors, such as coming to school, using kind words, helping a classmate, etc. will be rewarded with a "bonus" (extra coins) based on prices that the students set as a class. Students will learn how to exchange money from coins to dollars, or smaller coins to quarters. We will have a class "store." Again, the prices will be set by the students. The students will be able to save their class money to spend in the store. By doing so, students will learn the concept of saving to get a larger item later, counting their money and making change.

About my class

In a world where we swipe our cards, or pay with an app, our students are becoming less familiar with concepts of money. Unfortunately, that can be seen with the average American increasing their amount of debt monthly. Students used to easily identify quarters from video games, or vending machines. However, even many of the popular arcade places use a "token card" now instead of coins. My project aims to enable students to manipulate money on a daily basis as they learn to earn, save and spend their coins responsibly. Positive behaviors, such as coming to school, using kind words, helping a classmate, etc. will be rewarded with a "bonus" (extra coins) based on prices that the students set as a class. Students will learn how to exchange money from coins to dollars, or smaller coins to quarters. We will have a class "store." Again, the prices will be set by the students. The students will be able to save their class money to spend in the store. By doing so, students will learn the concept of saving to get a larger item later, counting their money and making change.

Read more

About my class

Read more
{"followTeacherId":3823178,"teacherId":3823178,"teacherName":"Mrs. Richardson","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/136/teacher-placeholder-5_136.png","teacherHasProfilePhoto":false,"vanityURL":"","teacherChallengeId":20830390,"followAbout":"Mrs. Richardson's projects","teacherVerify":-768476167,"teacherNameEncoded":"Mrs. Richardson","vanityType":"teacher","teacherPageInfo":{"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"teacherHasClassroomDescription":true,"teacherClassroomDescription":"","teacherProfileURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/3823178","tafURL":"https://secure.donorschoose.org/donors/share_teacher_profile.html?teacher=3823178","stats":{"numActiveProjects":0,"numFundedProjects":1,"numSupporters":4},"classroomPhotoPendingScreening":false,"showEssentialsListCard":false}}