Help St. Jude While Teaching Kids Math
The kids’ school sent home voluntary forms for the kids to participate in Math-A-Thon. When I saw that it began with the words “Math,” and my daughter needed a little initiative when it comes to learning, I decided to check out the site to see what it was all about. Math-A-Thon is a volunteer-based fundraising program for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a pediatric treatment and research facility where doctors treat children with serious diseases, like cancer. The hospital is where other doctors send their patients when they have run out of solutions. It is doing wonderful things for children, and its doctors usually are paving the way in medical solutions that will one day be the norm. Many of their work is funded by donations by individuals all over the world (including me). When I saw that the Math-A-Thon was for St. Jude Children’s Research Hopsital, I jumped at the chance to enroll Isabelle and Cebastian.
On top of the fact that the children are helping children with critical diseases, they are also sharpening their math and comprehension skills. This is how St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital explains the Math-A-Thon:
“The program includes a free math curriculum supplement for grades K-8 that students complete after obtaining sponsorships from family and friends. Benefits The benefits of Math-A-Thon add up to help a good cause. Students who participate will: improve math and comprehension skills solve age-appropriate math problems understand the importance of helping others This all equals help for St. Jude patients battling cancer and other catastrophic childhood diseases. How it Works The Math-A-Thon DVD is shown and students take home the Student/Parent Guide. Students return the signed permission/consent form to the coordinator. Students obtain sponsors, and then complete their Funbook by solving a variety of math problems. After completing the problems, students collect donations from their sponsors and return them to their coordinator. Students and schools earn prizes depending on total funds collected.”
The site is organized by grade level and it shows seven activities, initially. The kids and I went through them, and they are a little harder than what they are learning at school, and I’m glad. It forces them to actually think about the problem, instead of having the answer right in front of them.
If your school offers Math-A-Thon, definitely enroll your child(ren) in it. It’s a great program that helps your children help children with life-threatening diseases while doing it in an educational way.
