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Exploring Patterns And Symbols Through Chasing Vermeer

My 33 students need a class set of "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett and a class set of pentominoes to explore patterns and codes.

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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

Remember solving mysteries like those in the "Encyclopedia Brown" mysteries? They were fun, challenging, and kid-designed. There's a way for my math students to be challenged to explore secret codes, patterns, and geometry through Blue Balliett's young adult novel "Chasing Vermeer."

My 6th and 7th grade students come from challenged urban neighborhoods in northern Brooklyn such as East Williamsburg and Bushwick.

Most students' family situations qualify them for Title I funding and free school lunches. My students love puzzles and games; our school has award-winning programs in chess as well as baseball. They are great kids who learn best when they get a chance to be creative. But young people don't read enough. This will be a fun and hopefully painless way to both increase their literary and math skills.

My Project

Math is the science of patterns. What a wonderful way to explore patterns and geometry by creating, deciphering, and using secret codes to solve a centuries-old art mystery. That is what my students will do when we explore "Chasing Vermeer", a young adult novel by Blue Balliett. We will need a class set of 33 copies of the novel, along with a class set of pentominoes, which are two-dimensional geometric designs that play a central role in the novel. Through your generosity, my students will be able to develop skills in using and creating codes and patterns to help solve the literary mystery in "Chasing Vermeer". We will also explore geometric principles like perimeter, area, and symmetry using the pentominoes.

Students need to make connections with math outside of textbooks and classrooms.

By funding this project, you will help my students increase their math literacy abilities, as well as develop skills in understanding mathematical patterns. This will lead to better understanding of important math skills, such as using logic, decoding patterns, and employing geometry skills.

Mr. Schorn Intermediate School 318 Eugenio Maria Dehostos Grades 6-8

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Brooklyn, NY View local requests

More than 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Chasing Vermeer • AKJ Books $5.91 33 $195.03
Learning Resources - Rainbow Premier Pentominoes 6 Sets In Clear Tub • Teacher's School Supply Inc. $16.99 6 $101.94

Materials cost

$296.97

Vendor shipping charges

 $11.21

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.45

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$342.63

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$60.46

Total project goal

$403.09

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $403.09

4 Donors

-$203.09

Donations toward project cost

-$172.63

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.46

match offer

-$200.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$170.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.00

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 $0.00

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