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Past projects 13

• Financial Literacy To The Rescue!

  Funded Jan 27, 2025

  Thank you so much for donating to my project. With donations like yours I am able to provide authentic learning opportunities that are fun and engaging in math. My students appreciate having ample whiteboard space to figure out complicated math problems and discuss and collaborate while referring to their work on their individual whiteboards to the several whiteboard that we have around the room.

  Please know that my students and I are eternally grateful for the material we received via your donation. The material will last a long time for us. In fact, the whiteboards will be used for years to come by many students and that is a blessing that will keep giving.

  Thanks again for your generosity and I hope you continue making donations to educations projects at DonorsChoose.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Simonian

• Apple Pencil to Rescue!

  Funded Feb 14, 2025

  Thank you so much for donating to my project!

  With support from donors like you I am able to be a better teacher for my student. Your generous donation made it easier to incorporate technology in my class. We are still short of may resources but we make it work and every donation makes a huge difference.

  My students and I are eternally grateful to donors like you and the DonorsChoose organization that makes it all possible. Please continue making donations to classroom across the nation because every little bit counts and every little bit makes a difference.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Simonian

• Whiteboards Bring Math To Life!

  Funded Oct 3, 2024

  Having more whiteboard space has allowed my students to express their thinking on vertical non-permanent space which overall reduces the anxiety they have around a difficult complicated subject such as Pre-Algebra. They huddle together in groups of 3 or 4, start discussing the problem or task on hand, draw shapes or diagrams to make sense of it, create a table of values, or a graph or anything else that could help them dissect the complicated Math task to more manageable bite-size pieced they can understand. I am able to walk around my classroom to monitor their learning and provide support or hints when needed. There is no more sitting and blending in for any student. I love it and they start warming up to this new way of having to think and put their thinking on display.

  I wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart to value education and make donations to benefit the future generation.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Simonian

  This classroom project was brought to life by United Airlines and 2 other donors.

• Whiteboards For Financial & Numerical Literacy

  Funded Sep 28, 2024

  Having more whiteboard space has allowed my students to express their thinking on vertical non-permanent space which overall reduces the anxiety they have around a difficult complicated subject such as Pre-Algebra. They huddle together in groups of 3 or 4, start discussing the problem or task on hand, draw shapes or diagrams to make sense of it, create a table of values, or a graph or anything else that could help them dissect the complicated Math task to more manageable bite-size pieced they can understand. I am able to walk around my classroom to monitor their learning and provide support or hints when needed. There is no more sitting and blending in for any student. I love it and they start warming up to this new way of having to think and put their thinking on display.

  I wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart to value education and make donations to benefit the future generation.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Simonian

  This classroom project was brought to life by Charles Schwab Foundation and 2 other donors.

• Whiteboard Space for Math Literacy!

  Funded Sep 18, 2024

  Having more whiteboard space has allowed my students to express their thinking on vertical non-permanent space which overall reduces the anxiety they have around a difficult complicated subject such as Pre-Algebra. They huddle together in groups of 3 or 4, start discussing the problem or task on hand, draw shapes or diagrams to make sense of it, create a table of values, or a graph or anything else that could help them dissect the complicated Math task to more manageable bite-size pieced they can understand. I am able to walk around my classroom to monitor their learning and provide support or hints when needed. There is no more sitting and blending in for any student. I love it and they start warming up to this new way of having to think and put their thinking on display.

  I wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart to value education and make donations to benefit the future generation.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Simonian

  This classroom project was brought to life by The DonorsChoose Community & an Anonymous Partner and one other donor.

• Dice & Playing Cards: Yay To Learn Probability!

  Funded May 6, 2024

  We used the material you generously provided to learn about probability and statistics. Students used the dice to play a dice game at first to get familiar with "dice rules" in class. Then, they roll the dice to get a list of random numbers so they can create a dot plot and learn about mean, median, mode, and range. They found minimum, maximum, quartile 1, 2, and 3 to create a boxplot of the data. Later on, we learned to interpret our boxplot to make sense of the data. Next, they went to their friends, family members, teachers, and relatives to survey them to collect real world meaningful data, use them to create dot plots, boxplots, histograms, bar graphs, pie charts, etc. and interpret the data in their project in the context of the real life scenario.

  Without your generous donation we would not have been able to carry on this abstract unit in Math. I would like to extend our sincere gratitude to you for supporting Math education and we hope that you continue doing so in the future.”

  With gratitude,

  Mrs. Simonian

  This classroom project was brought to life by General Motors and one other donor.