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Cost of Materials and Course Tuition for the 12-week Professional Development Course for Teachers
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Materials An EQUATIONS Classroom Set contains games and materials to handle up to 36 students in a standard classroom tournament. The set includes:12 sets of cubes, 12 game boards, 12 timers, 12 table cards, 4 rule books, 5 seating charts w/cards, and master copies for the Game Rules and Flub Summary, Score Sheets, Tournament Team Sheets and Newsletter, Adventurous Rules, and 4+ Scoring Chart(s). Instructional Math Play (IMP) Kits are a set of 21 portable pamphlets, each simulating an EQUATIONS match teaching a specific math concept. Several sets of kits can be used for a whole class by allowing them to be passed around sequentially to introduce the basic relationships between arithmetic operations. The DIG Math Program and EQUATIONS Challenge Matches are software programs containing thousands of math concepts introduced and taught through EQUTIONS matches. These programs provide an encyclopediac reference collection of advanced math ideas and strategies for an ongoing tournament group. The regular retail price of the EQUATIONS Classroom set is $299 and the regular retail price of a set of 21 IMP Kits is $30. These materials are made availble at a reduced cost for particpants in this course through grants from the the Accelerated Learning Foundation.
Quantity Cost/Item 1
Class 6
Classes EQUATIONS Classroom Set 1 $275 $275 $1,650 IMP Kits - Set of 21 3 $20 $60 $360 DIG Math Program 1 $49 $49 $294 Challenge Matches
1
$49
$49
$294
Materials Sub-TOTAL: $433 $2,598
12-week Professional Development Course and Grants The Online Professional Development Course involves 12 weeks with a single1 ½ hour meeting. per week. These sessions are designed to support and extend concurrent implementation of classroom tournaments in the teacher's own classrooms. The course tuition is $565 per teacher and included a free copy of the Video Professional Development Course (normally $295 on DVD) through a grant* from the Accelerated Learning Foundation.
Quantity Cost/Item 1
Class 6
Classes
12-week Online Course 1
$565
$565
$3,390
GRAND TOTAL: $998 $5,988
The total net grant from ALF is $349 per participant ($2,094 for six teachers).
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