Parents of kindergarten students can attend a parent night for math in which parents receive a math tool kit for use at home with their child. Over the course of the school year, parents will receive additional games and activities that their kids can practice with at home. 

Manipulatives will be used in 3rd grade classrooms to help with concepts like fractions and elapsed time. 

Students will be able to use the website www.Mangahigh.com to better understand math through game-based learning. This website is 100% safe and can adjust the level of vigor to match the students abilities. 

Through a banking simulation, students will be able to develop real life schema regarding fixed and variable expenses, calculating profit from revenue and expenses, evaluating advantages and disadvantages of various savings options, budgeting, and banking basics.

The Countdown will provide an opportunity for all students to become more familiar with the high level of rigor and problem solving aspect of math.

"Kim Sutton's 10 Block Schedule for Math Fact Fluency" will provide students with a fun, engaging way to learn their basic addition and subtraction math facts.

Through the use of manipulatives, students will gain a better understanding to develop mastery of skills such as probability, addition and subtraction, patterns in a hundreds chart, attributes of three dimensional shapes, place value, telling time, elapsed time, and understanding fractional parts and their relationships.

Math-minded students are given the opportunity to increase their math skills and to compete at the MATHCOUNTS Competition at UTD.

Special Education students bake and sell (using play money) a product to the school staff while increasing their math, charting and graphing, reading, public speaking, and cleanliness skills as well as building their self esteem.

This grant will allow students to model addition by using a new and exciting hands on approach. Students will have an opportunity to explore and practice the concept of addition and create math problems.

Sumblox, high-quality blocks that represent numbers with their height, will be used by students to visually represent various math concepts.

Third grade students received new white boards that are used to informally assess the students knowledge of curriculum with the added assurance of being able to quickly erase mistakes.