At The Children's Storefront in Harlem, all the kids are familiar with this video/song
http://www.thechildrensstorefront.org/pi/PiVideoStrMed.mov
and compete in a contest in each grade to memorize places of PI and win a PIE on Monday!
In the spirit of "Anything is Possible" as made popular by Kevin Garnett from the Boston Celtics, one of my first grade students at The Children's Storefront in Harlem yesterday totally shocked me by reciting the first 121 digits of PI as part of my annual PI DAY contest. You can see her remarkable accomplishment (having studied for the last two weeks) by going to the YouTube video at http://tinyurl.com/PIDAY129 Please consider three favors: 1) watch the 2 minute video of this 6 year old reciting 121 places of PI and it will make you feel happy on a horribly rainy, windy day (at least in NYC) ... hopefully, it will make you say "anything is possible" ... in this video, you can see her pause and think several times as she digs into her head for the next 20 or 30 digits 2) send this email or a modified one to at least 10 of your own friends or family members or colleagues 3) donate 1 dollar ("that's just 100 pennies") by going to http://www.billionpennyproject.org If I can get this email circulated to 1 million people who do these three favors, I will be able to raise 100 million pennies by the time this horrible rain stops. The Children's Storefront is a tuition-free independent school and we need to constantly raise money to help students like this 6 year old get a good education and become successful adults.
I would love to connect with math teachers across the country/world doing similar things and perhaps do something from school to school via SKYPE... Steve
p.s. I also attended a math workshop at TEDx the other day in NYC that was one of the best math workshops I have seen on "the 21st Century approach to teaching math" in the last 33 years
Steve Bergen (sbergen@cstorefront.org)
CIO and Computer Teacher, The Children's Storefront
also co-director, The "Summercore" Teaching Company
until the Pats go 19-0 ... http://www.summercore.com
you can "follow Summercore" by going to
http://www.twitter.com/summercore
Summercore 2010 includes June 14-18 (VA) July 12-16 (NYC) July 26-30 (FL)
... you can read QUOTES about SUMMERCORE by going to www.summercore.com/http://www.summercore.com/vote/
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