Sorry it has taken me so long to follow up on the grant info. It was a hectic last week of school.
The grant I am writing is a general math grant for the school. It includes funding for two grade-level sets of Zome, some fictional math books, and start-up math club materials. The total request is less than $5000. The math club expenses are only a tiny part of the grant.
There are several companies in our area that focus their chariable contributions on math and science education so I may submit a similar grant to several different programs to increase my odds. The grant also has a broad emphasis. The resources requested in the grant will help the struggling math students as well as the most advanced.
I am waiting to get some math TAKS information from the school to see if I use any of it to sweeten the grant proposal. If geometry is one of the weak areas in math, it will help the geometry emphasis of the grant. We are a Title I school so it is usually not difficult to get grants if you can make the time to write a grant proposal.
If I don't get the grant or cannot get one in time, I will request the $89 Math Olympiad fee from the PTA. If we cannot get the money from them, we will simply charge the kids $8-$10 each to be in the club. It is not a high cost, but even that can be cost prohibitive for some of our students.
Please let me know if you are interested in any specific details that I did not included.
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