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Goal

The goal of this project is to purchase supplemental math curriculum and learning tools to meet the needs of our most struggling students by teaching targeted concepts in NEW and EXCITING ways. We hope that with a different approach, we can set up ALL of our students for mathematical success!
 

 

Category

Learning Aids - Sunshine state book sets, robotics kits, puzzle boards, science models, engineering supplies, etc. 

 

What will be done with my students

By purchasing class sets of "Number Routines with NumberBlocks" for pre-k, kindergarten, and our ESE students, teachers will have access to 60 lessons linked to 5-minute episodes of the hit show "NumberBlocks" to kick off each skill. The episodes are available on YouTube so it's accessible to students and families at home as well. The kit includes the teacher's guide with lesson plans, blackline masters, number blocks manipulatives, demonstration cards, and digital resources. Students absolutely LOVE this show! How amazing is it if we could now incorporate activities specific to each of these standards-based episodes!
https://www.hand2mind.com/item/number-routines-with-numberblocks-class-set

Another tool our students could greatly benefit from are Blockzee Balances which are also part of the "NumberBlocks" show. Our school data shows that our students struggle with the meaning of the equal sign even in grades 3-5, and these balances will help teach students at an early age that an equation is simply a balance, by providing opportunities for hands-on experimentation. Having (or not having) a conceptual understanding the equal sign affects our students' success in math even at the high school level.
https://www.hand2mind.com/item/numberblocks-blockzee-balance-activity-set

Place value relationships is another area of weakness for our school in multiple grade levels. By purchasing transparent base ten blocks that can be snapped together like Legos, students can actually construct their tens, hundreds, and thousands blocks themselves. Since the blocks are transparent, students will understand and be able to SEE the 1,000 cubes that they assembled to create a thousands block. These blocks are great for our visual and tactile learners and will hopefully help our struggling students understand this concept.
https://www.nascoeducation.com/clearview-base-10-blocks-x0000tb15532.html
https://www.nascoeducation.com/blue-clearview-base-10-cubes-pkg-of-100-tb17333.html

Finally, with digital clocks being the norm, our students struggle with telling time on an analog clock. This is a schoolwide trend. The clocks I would like to purchase are special - the white outer ring can be detached and straightened into a number line. Since students work with number lines since kindergarten, this is a great way to connect the idea that a clock is just a circular number line!
https://www.hand2mind.com/item/advanced-numberline-clock-set-of-6

These unique supplemental materials and tools will help our struggling students learn the concepts by presenting the ideas in new ways.

Research supports this approach... The position of the NCTM, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, is that conceptual understanding must precede and coincide with instruction on procedures. Learning is supported when instruction on procedures and concepts is explicitly connected in ways that make sense to students (e.g., Fuson, Kalchman, and Bransford 2005; Hiebert and Grouws 2007; Osana and Pitsolantis 2013) and iterative (e.g., Canobi 2009; Rittle-Johnson, Schneider, and Star 2015). Conceptual foundations lead to opportunities to develop reasoning strategies, which in turn deepens conceptual understanding; memorizing an algorithm does not. When students use a procedure they do not understand, they are more likely to make errors and fail to notice when the answer does not make sense (Kamii and Dominick 1998; Narode, Board, and Davenport 1993).  

 

Benefits to my students

We hope that kindergarten students in the bottom quartile as measured by the i-Ready diagnostic or STAR testing in the fall will move out of the bottom quartile by the end of the year on the targeted domains addressed by the supplemental items in this grant.

For grades 1-5, we hope that bottom quartile students as determined from PM3 of last school year will move out of the bottom quartile by the end of this year in the targeted domains on either the i-Ready diagnostic, STAR test, or FAST.

With the generous funding of this grant, our hope is that ALL students will find success in developing conceptual understanding of foundational skills. Please help us bridge the gap and reach every learner! 

 

Budget Narrative

4 Class Sets of Number Routines with NumberBlocks @ $340 each
2 Sets of Advanced Number Line Clocks (6 in each set) @ $60 each
8 NumberBlocks Blockzee Balance Activity Sets @ $30 each
12 Sets of Clearview Base 10 Interlocking Blocks Starter Sets @$23 each
2 Sets of Clearview Base 10 Ones Cubes @ $2 each


 

 

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