Grace Christian Academy celebrated Pi Day on March 12th instead of the traditional date of March 14th as that date fell on a Saturday, and March 13th was a holiday for our students. Pi Day celebrations were held worldwide to honor the most famous ratio in mathematics and its importance in our daily lives. Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to the diameter. Denoted by the Greek letter, Pi has been around for almost 4000 years. This important constant in a string of never-ending digits with no apparent pattern that stands for an approximation that works for every single circle imaginable.
Each mathematics class in middle school and high school was assigned projects to use pi. Constructing mobiles, measurement charts of familiar objects, and creative pi designs were used for grading purposes. The real fun was at the celebration party. Pi eating contest, pi songs and poetry, Jeopardy, a pi drama, pi videos, and many other games of a circular nature were great applications of this useful approximation. This is one math class everyone was eager to participate in. How many digits of pi can you memorize before next year’s celebration? 3.14159265358979323846……….
(Article prepared by Mrs. Bennett)
Each mathematics class in middle school and high school was assigned projects to use pi. Constructing mobiles, measurement charts of familiar objects, and creative pi designs were used for grading purposes. The real fun was at the celebration party. Pi eating contest, pi songs and poetry, Jeopardy, a pi drama, pi videos, and many other games of a circular nature were great applications of this useful approximation. This is one math class everyone was eager to participate in. How many digits of pi can you memorize before next year’s celebration? 3.14159265358979323846……….
(Article prepared by Mrs. Bennett)
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