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Project Goal

The goal of this project is to establish a teacher resource library comprised of children's literature that can be utilized by teachers to support student exploration of various mathematic concepts. All teachers would have access to these texts at all times and could utilize them regularly in the classroom in conjunction with math instruction. 

 

How Project Benefits Students

This project would benefit all of our students in a number of ways.
-By integrating literature into math instruction, we will continue to build strong reading skills throughout the day. Students will be provided opportunities to have a print rich math environment. Strategies introduced during reading would continue to be reinforced during math, and connections between the content areas could be made.
-Our English Second Language Learners would be provided additional opportunities to hear and use language in context to describe mathematical concepts, increasing their ability to make connections and understand introduced math concepts while gaining additional language exposure.
-These texts would allow students to make real life connections between the math they are learning and every day experiences in the world around them.
-Exploring math through literature increases student interest and engagement.
-Many of these texts introduce students to real life problem solving scenarios which encourage critical thinking and problem solving rather than the memorization of rote steps. 

 

Expected Outcome(s)

The overall expected outcome is an increase in student math achievement. However, we also expect to see a number of periphery outcomes as a result of this project as well, including:
-An increase in student interest and confidence in math.
-An increase in student application of critical thinking and problem solving strategies.
-An increase in students' independent application of reading strategies.
-An increase in student conceptual understanding and application of math in real life situations.
-Increased engagement from all learners. 

 

Detailed Cost Summary

Each purchase is one copy of a text that would be available to teachers pre-k thru fifth grade through our teacher lending library. The texts address various math concepts applicable to standards taught at each of these grade levels. 

 

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