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Mr. Schaa from N. Highlands, CA is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Make My Students Math Prodigies!

Help me give my students Prodigy. It is an adaptive math game that integrates Common Core math into a role-playing game using a Pokemon-style wizardry theme.

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My Students

I am very fortunate to have an amazing group of students. Their insatiable thirst for knowledge is what inspires me to seek out innovative ways to make learning in our classroom entertaining and meaningful. What I love most about them is their inquisitiveness and eagerness to learn new things. They love anything dealing with STEAM and project days are intense.

Our school is Title I with 95% of our students receiving free or reduced lunch.

In spite of having limited materials at school and limited resources in the area where they live, they are always happy to come to school and embrace those challenges as a driving force to do their best.

My Project

Prodigy math is an interactive website that engages students while teaching them the math skills for the 21st century. Trying to get 6th grade students to want to practice their math skills independently is sometimes a challenge, especially when working with fractions, decimals, and percents. However, this site has so many incentives that they cannot help but want to complete more battles to level-up and catch more mythical creatures.

Another great feature is that math skills addressed in assignments can be timed to appear exactly when those topics are covered in class and disappear when those lessons are over.

Students have no overt knowledge of what those skills are because they are invisibly integrated into the gameplay. They learn math as they play and cannot progress until it is mastered. Because of this, the gameplay can be used for both formative and summative assessments.

Mr. Schaa Frederick Joyce Elementary School Grades 6-8

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.

More about Mr. Schaa

N. Highlands, CA 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

30 students impacted 6donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Prodigy Math Class Membership • Prodigy $12.00 30 $360.00

Materials cost

$360.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $32.94

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.40

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$428.34

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$75.59

Total project goal

$503.93

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $503.93

6 Donors

-$477.46

Donations toward project cost

-$428.34

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$49.12

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$26.47

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