Our teachers were instructing kindergarteners on the use of the number line with only a paper banner above the chalkboard. Now every kindergartener has his/her own complete with a dry erase marker and eraser. Kindergarten classrooms use number lines to explore the concepts of addition and subtraction. In our version, the student can position a […]
New this year! All kindergarteners are now enjoying learning with Mathseeds! Mathseeds provides a structured learning sequence with self-paced lessons focused on teaching essential kindergarten math skills. Every child has both an online learning subscription and an iPad. While students enrolled in tutoring are eligible to take an iPad home for after-school learning, parents may
Each and every kindergartener at Dinsmore Elementary now has his/her very own iPad to use in the classroom. This is quite an accomplishment as there are 79 kindergarteners! Now students can stay logged into their online learning accounts. Faster classroom transitions provide more time for learning! We thank our many donors over the years and
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Our kindergarteners can now earn tickets when they complete assignments both in class and at home. These tickets can then be used to shop for (mostly educational) items. Ranging in price from two to thirty tickets, children have the option to save for more expensive items. We hope that earning shopping tickets will inspire every
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These “base ten blocks” help our kindergarteners learn place value. The children can manipulate the proportionally correct blocks to represent a two-digit number and visualize how many tens and ones are in a given group. These blocks help our young students to understand the relationship between the different columns on a place value grid –
Showing kindergarteners how to take care of things is an important classroom lesson. That is why it is terrific our recent grant not only provided the math answer boards but also the storage racks. We thank the William & Helen Thomas Charitable Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee for the complete set-up! Click here to
Thanks to a grant by the William & Helen Thomas Charitable Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee, all kindergarteners can now get a handle on math, literally! The ten-frame answer boards enable children to think of numbers in terms of their relationship to ten. Mental addition/subtraction calculations become more automatic. For example, “There’s eight because
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Want to learn more about our Lil’ Mathematician program? We now have a single webpage describing our math program. We don’t only want the children to have a solid math foundation; we want them to LOVE math! We want them to THINK math and not just memorize! We want them to see math all around
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Finding all the ways to decompose a number is much more fun and memorable with burger buns and pickle buttons! The activity starts by placing pickle buttons in a closed bun (whole number). Then, the children open the bun and move pickles from side to side (parts) recording all the possible combinations. Click here to
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The Florida Philanthropic Network recently held a K-12 Math Meeting in Jacksonville. The meeting was sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Our nonprofit president was fortunate to be invited. With a nonprofit president who held a Certified Public Accountant license for 28 years, math education has always been important to our organization. Following