Lil’ Mathematician

Our job does not end when we get the iPads in the classrooms.  A lot of work that goes on is behind the scenes. Our first job is to make sure students are safely connected to the Internet.  Every iPad is controlled with Remote Management Software.  Student access is limited to the learning software we […]

Kindergarteners participating in our tutoring program earn tickets as they complete lessons.  These tickets can then be used to purchase items (some are even educational) in our classroom store. The kids do enjoy choosing their purchases and weighing the number of tickets each item costs.  But, oddly enough, what they enjoy most is counting out

It isn’t the students struggling to keep up, it is us at Know & Grow.  With so many new kindergarteners enrolling, we can’t seem to deliver enough iPads.  We just delivered iPads #82 and #83 this week. You know the saying “wash your car and it will rain”?  With us, it is “order spare iPads

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

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

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