Wallingford, PA, June 10, 2015– Mother of Providence Regional Catholic School students and faculty attended the First in Math Awards Ceremony at St. Laurence School in Upper Darby on June 9th. Over a million schools in the United States participate in the First in Math Program. First in Math is a Math enrichment program that uses online games to reinforce and supplement math concepts learned in the classroom. Mother of Providence has seen a direct correlation between students standardized test scores in Math and the use of the First in Math program.
At this year’s award ceremony, it was announced that of the top one hundred students in the nation using the First in Math program, eight were from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Several Archdiocesan schools placed in the top one hundred schools nationally and Mother of Providence was in the top five schools nationally. Two of the teams from Mother of Providence placed in the top one hundred teams nationally and Mrs. Ruth Bachman, the school’s Honors Math Teacher and Math program coordinator placed in the top 20 teachers in the nation. Two family players from Mother of Providence placed in the top 100 nationally. Mother of Providence Regional Catholic School accumulated over one million points playing First in Math and reached 89% of the school’s goals, the highest percentage regionally.

About Mother of Providence Regional Catholic School:
Located in Wallingford, Pennsylvania on a 16-acre suburban campus, Mother of Providence Regional Catholic School (MPRCS) promotes a Catholic learning environment in which every child develops spiritually, intellectually and socially. In addition to a religious education firmly rooted in our Catholic tradition, we offer a challenging academic curriculum. Students develop a love of learning and a strong moral conscience in a disciplined, caring environment.

About Suntex International, Inc., creators of First in Math:
Suntex International Inc. is an organization committed to furthering mathematics education. The company's objective is to help students develop math skills that will sustain them for a lifetime by promoting permanent skill retention-not just short-term memorization of facts. As a logical step toward that objective, the First In Math® Online Mathematics Program was created. Offering substantive content that supports any curriculum, the site is safe, user-friendly, and shares the sophistication of computer games kids are used to playing. The program provides positive and reinforcing experiences, and gives students incentive to achieve.
The First In Math program can serve as a tool to help create a new generation of thinkers. To that end, the online program delivers an effective technology program that makes math appealing and accessible, is easy to implement, easy to use and is the most cost-effective mathematics instruction tool available.

If you would like more information about this Press Release, please contact Linda Rooney, Advancement Director at 610-876-7110 X122 or email at [email protected].