Well, the entire school sang Happy Pi Day (to the tune of Happy Birthday) at 1:59pm yesterday. Yes, no math teacher worth his/her salt would let March 14 pass without working the school children into a formulaic frenzy. My counterpart, Mrs. Dunham, and I did our part to raise the awareness of the ever-famous ratio that has been used in calculations since 2000 BC. Oh, and March 14 is Albert Einstein's birthday too - betcha didn't know that.The last two periods of the day we had several math/circular related games set up in the cafeteria. The students eagerly (really, they were eager) walked from station to station playing games and collecting round "chips". They eventually put their round chips into one or several cans that sat in front of prizes they could win. Throwing a pie at Mr. Palmer was a popular prize, but not as popular as throwing a pie in principal Don's face......Hey, 50 digits of pi (12 font) stretch 10 cm. How many km does one billion digits stretch? Be careful with your dang decimal point.
2 comments:
I think it is 20,000 km for one billion digits of pi. By the way, I'm Baxter's friend. I go to Green Valley School in the same class as him.
Thanks for your reply Baxter's Friend. I think your decimal point was too greedy by a factor of ten.
Green VaLley Rocks!
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