Math-A-Thon Benefits St. Jude Children’s Hospital
Students chose to use their math skills, on their own time, to help make a difference by participating in St. Jude’s Math-A-Thon. Want to know how much they raised?
Sewickley Academy students chose to use their math skills to help make a difference by participating in St. Jude’s Math-A-Thon and raised $3,227, which will cover the cost of 46 wagons that will comfortably transport patients from one treatment room to another.
Math-A-Thon challenges students to work 200 math problems at home. To participate, students asked family and friends for pledges to solve math problems in the Math-A-Thon Funbook. The problems are designed to be fun, intriguing, and a positive learning experience. By seeking sponsors to pledge approximately three to five cents per problem, students and their sponsors help children diagnosed with cancer. Head of Middle School Jeff Zemsky said, “They do this because they love math and they believe in the mission [of St. Jude].”
For more than 30 years, Math-A-Thon has been America's largest education-based fundraiser. Math-A-Thon is a free, education-based fundraising program for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The program includes a free math curriculum supplement for Grades K-8 that students complete after obtaining sponsorships from family and friends. The funds raised by the students benefit St. Jude, the largest childhood cancer research hospital in the world, where doctors and scientists work to eradicate childhood cancer and other catastrophic childhood diseases.
