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Project Goal

The goal of this project is to increase the visibility of math on campus by purchasing materials that support the creation of customized visual aids, interactive teaching tools, and manipulatives that help students attain a deeper understanding and love for math through hands-on activities.  

 

Category

Class Furniture - Carpets, choral risers, transitional seating/desks, etc. 

 

How Project Benefits Students

We want students to have a deep understanding and a love for math. Strategies that will allow students to gain conceptual understanding that will be the foundation for success throughout their lives. 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). Students who learn fact strategies outperform students who learn through other approaches (e.g., Baroody et al. 2016; Henry and Brown 2008; Brendefur et al. 2015). Basic fact strategies use number relationships and benchmarks and thus support students, emerging conceptual understanding and flexibility (Bay-Williams and Kling 2019; Davenport et al. 2021).

Our school has a poster machine, however the ink, paper, and laminate can be quite expensive for a Title 1 school. We would love to have the ability to create visual aids as needed without having to worry about exhausting our supplies for the year.

We are also trying to build conceptual understanding for our students through the use of hands-on activities and games. As the math coach, I store all the learning tools and games in my room. If we do not have enough of a particular resource for each teacher to have his or her own set for the classroom, I have a checkout system. As we begin different units of study, I make sure our teachers and students have access to the appropriate materials and we share them across grade levels.

This grant will greatly increase the amount of visual and hands-on tools for our teachers and students to use. The items requested for this grant will be utilized year after year and reach students in every grade level.  

 

Expected Outcome(s)

With the generous funding of this grant, students will develop a deeper, conceptual understanding of mathematical concepts and a love for math, which will set the foundation for high academic achievement. This in turn will unlock opportunities for students that they might not have otherwise had access to. Let’s help set up our mathematicians for success! 

 

Detailed Cost Summary

5 Number Line Pocket Charts - $300
30 Base Ten Dual Number Lines - $162
8 Hands-On Counting Trays - $112
60 Ten Frame Pop Its (without numbers) - $131
60 Ten Frame Pop Its (with numbers) - $60
4 pocket charts to 100 - $60
10 pocket charts to 120 - $180
2 rolls of poster printer paper for VeriQuest poster machine - $126
1 roll of lamination film - $71
Perfecta 2400Pro Ink Set for Poster Machine - $190
14 Place Value Pocket Charts - $266
100 6-sided dice - $9
200 10-sided dice - $24
32 Decks of Digit Playing Cards - $160
60 Clear Spinners for Games - $44 

 

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