Counting Stars

School:: Mike Davis Elementary
Subject:: Mathematics
Teacher:: Meagan Wherry
: First and second grade teachers (14 teachers in all)
Students Impacted:: 240
Grade:: 1
Date:: September 5, 2019

Investor

Thank you to the following investor for funding this grant.

Suncoast Credit Union - $482.65

Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 240

I am so thankful to Suncoast Credit Union for generously fullfilling this grant. The funding allowed the purchase of 8 new sets of classroom base ten block sets. This allowed all first grade teachers to have a set of base ten blocks for each student in their class to use and manipulate hands on while learning larger numbers, regrouping and skip counting. These all have previously been difficult concepts for our students as they have to visualize numbers. Through the use of hands on learning, we have seen over 80% of first grade students show profiecency with adding, subtracting and manipulating two digit numbers.

Second grade was also impacted through this purchase as it allowed teacher to refurbish their depleating base ten block sets from an older math series. The remaind sets of base ten blcoks that were purchased were used to complete sets for second grade so that they could have enough for each student in their class to use while practicing addition and subtraction with three digit numbers. Through teacher observation and instruction an increase in student understanding of regrouping to borrow and to carry over was shown.

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Team work with our base ten blocks! Thanks SunCoas

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Persevering with the help of our base ten blocks!

Original Grant Overview

Goal

The goal is to get a grade level set of base ten manipulatives that can be shared between first and second grade teachers. It will give students hand on base ten manipulatives to use in math lessons to count, visualize, regroup, etc.

What will be done with my students

The class kits will be signed out and shared by the first and second grade teachers to bring their math lessons to life using hands on models. They will be incorporated in lesson about place values, addition, and subtraction.

Benefits to my students

Students will use the manipulative base ten blocks in their math lessons to learn about place values, convert between place values and visually regroup to understand addition. This will help the students as they progress into intermediate math as they will be able to visualize the ones, tens and hundreds when completing standard algorithm. It will also allow them to connect to the hundreds when looking at decimal models. This is a skill as a math coach that students are missing in intermediate because they do not have experience with these manipulatives in primary when they should.

Budget Narrative

7 sets of class based ten blocks would be purchased from hand2mind via amazon.com. This would provide a grade level set to be shared between first and second grade who need these for our new math adoption.

Items

#	Item	Cost
1	7 class sets of base ten blocks at $68.95 each	$482.65
	Total:	$482.65

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