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Pi Day - March 14th
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PI DAY
14th of March is Pi Day!
Happy 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939... Day!
I love Pi so irrationally that I always celebrate it.
For one thing, it's constant.
Pi (π) is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. By measuring circular objects, it has always turned out that a circle is a little more than 3 times its width around. The mathematician Archimedes used polygons with many sides to approximate circles and determined that Pi was approximately 22/7.
William Jones first used the symbol for Pi, the Greek symbol “π”, in 1706. In recent years, Pi has been calculated to over one trillion digits beyond its decimal.
The Exploratorium Pi Day – lots of easy activities and more links. The activities can be dowloaded as Pdfs. There is also a good history of PI.
Education World – Throw a Pi Day Party! Lots of additional links. Including Pi Day Songs
Pinterest – Shari Bithell’s Pi Day Activities - Some great
ideas here. Great images it. Take a look at the chickens
and the PI in the Sky.
How to Calculate Pi by Throwing Frozen Hot Dogs
Believe it or not, of all the countless ways to approximate
the most prolific irrational number in the universe, there are
none quite as interesting or as surprisingly satisfying as
throwing perfectly good food around.
