Thanks to the Trustees of the Glenn W. Bailey Foundation for supporting our Lil’ Mathematician program. All three program areas – Tutoring, Teaching Tools, and Kid-Sized Materials – will be improved with the funds we received from their substantial grant. We don’t only want the children to have a solid math foundation; we want them […]
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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
More than 10,000 assignments have been completed by kindergarteners and first graders in our after-school program! And, the school year is not quite half over! In addition to in-school tutoring, the young students take iPads home to complete Khan Academy Kids lessons that have been assigned to them. The iPads have cellular internet and, therefore,
“David” started first grade not knowing all the letters of the alphabet. He was receiving all F-grades on reading comprehension. He took an iPad home every night and completed his assigned lessons. He quickly advanced through the kindergarten and first-grade learning paths. His classroom teacher reports he scored 100% on his latest reading comprehension test.
These handy pads allow children to get plenty of number bond practice. They can later re-visit their work. The children are encouraged to take them home to create their own math equations.
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This colorful page has number bonds in all four directions. Each direction is a different color making it easy for a teacher to instruct a room full of kindergarteners. The kiddos can practice filling in equation(s) in all directions. We designed this page as teachers reported kindergarteners often get confused when a number bond is
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A gigantic ten-frame makes it easy for a teacher to lead math activities with the entire classroom. Plenty of activities with ten-frames 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 two are missing.” We even provided magnetic, hanging dry
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Our after-school tutoring program is the ultimate in convenience. The tutoring can be done any time after school and without the need to travel. How can this be? The enrolled kindergarteners and first graders bring home iPads. These secure iPads only allow the students to access the learning software. Not got wi-fi? No problem. The
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Khan Academy Kids has just made a programming improvement which makes their extraordinary (and free!) learning software MUCH easier for students to use. The new password reset procedure sends an email asking the administrator if a new password is desired. Before this system enhancement, if just one student tapped the password reset button in error,
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