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Mrs. Silberman from Bronx, NY is requesting other through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Make Teaching Math Fun!

My students need Write & Wipe Lapboard Erasers, What’s the Best Strategy? centers, Explain Your Reasoning! Math Prompts, and a Math Folder Game Library.

  • $786 goal

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My Students

I typically hear, "no not math!, it's so hard" from struggling math students. If teaching math is not done in an engaging way, those students just shut down. By the end of this year, I want to hear my students cheer when it is time to do math. My biggest challenge is to close the gaps.

I work in a NYC public school.

My school is a Title 1 school with majority of students on free or reduced lunch. Despite their individual challenges, they come to school yearning to learn each day. Students struggling in reading and math are placed in small groups for intervention.

My Project

My vision for teaching Math AIS this year is to have my group of students split into different math stations. For example, the station will include: computers (working on IReady math), math skill games, problem solving task cards, and explain strategy task cards... This type of rotation will allow me to provide individualized instruction and conference time with students. Explain Your Reasoning! Math prompts will encourage my students to work with a partner and discuss and write about math. Often students just do the work, but have a hard time explaining their thinking. What's the Best Strategy? will allow my students to work together and see more than one strategy for solving problems and doing operations. This will allow them to work more independently and choose the strategy that works best for them. Plastic sleeves can be reused. My goal by the end of the year is for these students to graduate from my intervention group and hear them say, "I like math because I can do it!

To help keep them engaged and motivated, approaching math through games and task cards will make math fun.

Having students work collaboratively will encourage more meaningful math talk. "The only way to learn math is to do math." When my students meet with me, they will be in a more relaxed environment using the materials donated. My students will see math as fun and not boring. I am eager to hear them say, "Yes, Mrs. Silberman is here!" "We love math!"

Mrs. Silberman PS 111 Seton Falls Grades 3-5

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Bronx, NY View local requests

Nearly all 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
PP725X - What's the Best Strategy? Problem Solving Centers - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $149.00 1 $149.00
HH335X - Math Folder Game Libraries - Gr. 4-5 - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $129.00 1 $129.00
DE190 - Reusable Write & Wipe Pocket - Set of 10 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $22.50 2 $45.00
PP726 - What’s the Best Strategy? Addition Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
PP727 - What’s the Best Strategy? Subtraction Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
PP728 - What’s the Best Strategy? Multiplication Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
PP729 - What’s the Best Strategy? Division Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
PP673 - Explain Your Reasoning! Math Prompts - Gr. 3 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
PP672 - Explain Your Reasoning! Math Prompts - Gr. 2 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
PP675 - Explain Your Reasoning! Math Prompts - Gr. 5 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
PP674 - Explain Your Reasoning! Math Prompts - Gr. 4 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
PP994 - Quick-Pick Fractions Activity Cards • Lakeshore Learning Materials $12.99 1 $12.99
RR423 - Write & Wipe Lapboard Erasers - Set of 10 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $11.99 1 $11.99

Materials cost

$627.90

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.42

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$667.32

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$117.76

Total project goal

$785.08

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $785.08

3 Donors

-$351.36

Donations toward project cost

-$333.66

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$17.70

match offer

-$392.54

Match offer toward project cost

-$333.66

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$58.88

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$41.18

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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