76ers Math Hoops, presented by TD Charitable Foundation
76ers Math Hoops, presented by TD Charitable Foundation is an exciting, fast-paced, basketball-themed board game and curriculum that teaches students fundamental life skills such as sportsmanship, teamwork and problem-solving while also fostering their math literacy and appreciation skills. Students have the opportunity to “draft” their favorite Sixers and other NBA and WNBA players while improving not only their math skills and understanding of statistics, but also their ability to collaborate more effectively with their peers.
More than 1,300 students participated in 76ers Math Hoops across Philadelphia and Camden during the 2017-2018 academic year.
More than 120 students entered, but only two left champions of the 2019 76ers Math Hoops Tournament, presented by TD Charitable Foundation. On Jan. 30, students from across Philadelphia, Camden, Wilmington and the surrounding areas descended upon the 76ers Training Complex for the third annual 76ers Math Hoops Tournament, presented by TD Charitable Foundation....
01 February, 2019
Last week, more than 100 local educators flocked to the Philadelphia 76ers Business Offices in Camden, NJ to participate in the 2018-19 76ers Math Hoops Training, presented by TD Charitable Foundation. Over the course of four days and five training sessions led by program implementation......
17 September, 2018
The Sixers Youth Foundation recently celebrated Gianni Steele and Miguel Gregory’s selection to the 2018 Math Hoops National Championship. Steele, a sixth-grade student at Camden’s Mastery Schools of Camden – Cramer Upper Hill, and Gregory, a seventh-grade student at Philadelphia’s Southwark Middle School, were chosen......
22 May, 2018
After three rounds of competitive, yet fun and friendly Sixers Math Hoops play, the duo of Ricardo and T.J. from South Philadelphia’s Eliza B. Kirkbride School were crowned the 2018 Sixers Math Hoops Champions....
30 March, 2018
The Sixers Youth Foundation got in the holiday spirit by hosting special Coaching Café holiday parties at Philadelphia’s Emlen Elementary School and Warren G. Harding Middle School. In addition to each school’s already-scheduled Coaching Café program, the Sixers Youth Foundation helped spread holiday cheer by providing all students, parents and caregivers in attendance a special dinner and Q&A session with Philadelphia 76ers alumni Jumaine Jones. ...
20 December, 2017
37 members of the Emlen Elementary community came together on November 16 all in the name of family fun as part of the Sixers Youth Foundation’s Coaching Café program. This program brings students and their families together bi-weekly for 30 – 60 minutes of physical......
17 November, 2017
Aye Aye, a local seventh-grade student from Southwark School in Philadelphia, battled head-to-head with some of the nation’s most-promising, young mathletes in the 2017 Math Hoops National Tournament at Stanford University on June 2-4. Once the dust settled, Aye Aye found herself in the Final......
01 June, 2017
The Sixers Youth Foundation hosted the inaugural Math Hoops Tournament on Thursday, April 6 prior to the Sixers game vs. the Chicago Bulls. The tournament consisted of 48 students from 13 middle schools across Philadelphia, Pa. and Camden, N.J. The tournament was tipped off by......
07 April, 2017
The Sixers Youth Foundation in partnership with the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Civic Engagement & Volunteer Service launched a new after-school program at Warren G. Harding Middle School. This is an early evening program modeled after Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Cities of Service initiative called the......
20 December, 2016