My favorite Pi day activity was eating dounuts and then looking where in pi your birthday false like if it is on Jan 1st 2000 you would write 1100 and then you would get in which part of pi it is in.Pi day is awesome my math teacher was excited about it. 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751 I love Pi!
I missed out this year, I cannot believe it! I have Pi printed to 500 000 places on a sheet of A0 lying on my desk. I have been looking for secret messages in it. I haven’t found any but I am sure that they are there, staring me in the face.
For Pi day, I bake an apple pie and then a mock apple pie for my chemistry class. When I bake the crust, I cut the symbol for pi in it to allow the steam to escape. Then, we do a taste test of the 2 different pies and the students prefer the mock apple pie (made with Ritz crackers) over the real apple pie. Funny how food chemistry works.
I ate pie and we played a game with some software that I created. It allows you to enter as many digits of pi as you know and then it checks them and if you get it wrong on such and such a number it tells you what number you messed up on. It then displays that number then all the other numbers neede to get to the 100th digit of Pi. I made it in my spare time, so it is not too cool, but it does use my voice behind the digits.
2*pi pops up quite a bit in applied work. 2*pi radians is also a unit circle. My wife and I celebrated 6/28 by getting married on a mathematically holistic day. As a numbernerd, I have an undergrad math degree.
What is your favorite Pi Day activity ?
Well my favorite Pi Day activity at my school was seeing my team won and seeing the princaple get pie thrown in his face !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My high schools math classes joined together and every period of every participating math class we made color-coded paper chains where the colors represent a number. We were trying to break the whole world record.
It was an epidemic at my school today. Everyone had pie for Pi Day. I had pie in my Russian and Literature class and everyone was going to this teacher’s class during math because she had about six different pies. It was a good Pi day.
This year we did a teamwork building activity with our homebase classes (these are like homerooms). The students were to build a chain out of colored paper to represent pi where each color represented a number 0-9. The students got 5 minutes to work out a plan and then they had 10 minutes with no talking to build the chain. Any group that talked lost 10 links. We had 15 strips of each color and that allowed students to make a chain of 112 links.
Today I spread the joy throughout school!! Nobody really knew what Pi day was (*gasp*) so I had to explain it over and over, but that’s fine because now they are in the know!
Favorite activity- reciting pi from memory in between classes to the 70th place. Extremely fun, especially if you get a beat going and have others who know it. Reciting in rounds gets really interesting!!
We didn’t get to eat Pie on Pi day until after 3:09:26 pm. I can’t wait until Pi day in the year 2015, when we can have our Pie as early as 9:26:53 am.
To share in the holiday spirit, I wear my Pi shirt, discuss equations containing the constant, and bring home pies for everyone at my house. Depending on the possibility, I may also bring pies to friends.
My traditional pies are key lime meringue and lemon meringue.
my faviorte pi day activity was when my teacher brought us all pie!! all different kinds! he also made this pi jepordy game and he gave us a quick pi history lesson; which i actually learnrd alot of intresting facts from!
my friends and I calculated the price of Dominos pizza per square cm.
In the UK this breaks down thus
Inches Diameter/cm diameter/price/picepercm2
7 / 17.78 / 5.99 / 2.4137
9.5 / 24.13 / 9.99 / 2.1856
11.5 / 29.21 / 12.99/ 1.9394
13.5 / 34.29 / 14.99/ 1.6240
so you can see that buying large pizzas is more economical ! thanks PI !
Pie.
Strawberry Pi.
Pumpkin Pi.
American Pi.
Moon Pi.
Starting with breakfast pie (quiche, etc.) along with ‘healthy’ pies such as pumpkin (which is a vegetable. Yes it is. Really.)
Then, lunch is Pizza Pie, of course. Momo’s. Like 2 feet or more in diameter.
After that, dessert pie. Like 20 (pumpkin, rhubarb, apple, key lime, key lime mango, another key lime, chocolate silk, buttermilk, sweet potato, maple and walnut…you get the idea. At 2pmish (1:59)
In our 7th grade math class, we all bring in circle food items (cookies, doughnuts, etc.) and measure the circumpherence. We also have a contest to see who can recite the most numbers of pi, if you win you get to ‘pi’ a classmate, or a teacher. Not really PIE, but PI, as in they wear a plate around their neck that says “I’ve been Pied (pi symbol)!” On pie day we count down to 1:59:26 in the afternoon, and yell (at the top of our lungs) HAPPY PI DAY! And i happen to be in math at that time!
In Maths, Our teacher got really enthusiastic =)
He made a pi powerpoint, dowloaded a song about pi, showed us some pi videos, and brought in little homemade pi food, like biscuits in the shape of pi and buns with pi on.
Granted I’m 48 and not in school, but two of my associates and I are math appreciators and have celebrated the last two Pi Days by going to the best pie place in town - the local Chinese food restaurant…no joke!
My friend Cherise has created an entire dance routine dedicated to her fascination with irrational numbers. The finale is dedicated specifically to Pi and is quite a sight to see. Every year we all try to get together to see the annual performance….
Here in the UK, we celebrate Pi Day on 22 July since we write the DAY first, followed by the MONTH. Hence, 3/14 is nonsensical as there are only 12 months.
I work with people from many countries so we all bring pi (pie) native to our homeland very much so. I bring a durian and pumpkin pi (pie) with green tea.
Today we had a competition on who could recite the most digits of pi. The winner knew 356 digits and could have kept on going. We told her to stop because it was the end of the lesson
This is my 10th annual Pi Day delivering pies to all my friends. (Up to 100 pies have been delivered in a day.) It’s great to see their faces when I show up at their door. They only expect it if I’ve come the year before.
We held a tshirt design contest, then the kids wear the shirts on 3-14. Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi is a great book to read aloud. Measurement activity with different circles to find the pattern of the pi constant. The necklace activity using different colored beads for all the digits, with one large bead to represent the whole number 3. Finally, of course, eating pie is a must.
In my Calculus class were are having a Pi Day Party!!! We all are making pies and bringing them in. Then we’ll all share in class while we do various nerdy, but fun, Pi activities!!!!
I LOVE bringing pies and other circular things to school on pi day to use as problems to do math with (like find the circumference or the diameter) while having your mouth water while you calculate the numbers. The best part is the end…when you EAT them!
relating the story of the Star Trek episode where Mr Spock used the calculation to keep a rouge computer from setting on its task of destroying the Enterprise
We read “Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi” by Cindy Neuschwander, eat our family’s favorite pie and sing happy birthday to Albert Einstien. Maybe we’ll come up with something new this year.
The Horry County (SC) Memorial Library will be holding its annual staff development day on Pi Day. Refreshments will include pies made by the staff members who are hosting the workshop that day.
Here at HDMS in Hillsboro, NH, our favorite Pi Activity is eating PIE of course! We will be fundraising for a Washington DC trip and selling slices of pie!
I celebrate pi day with a meal featuring “round things”. This year, it’s an Italian theme:
Pasta - Ravioli di spinaci
Secondo - Lombo di Maiale Ripieno di Mortadella con Patate Arrosto (pork loin roast stuffed with mortadella, rolled, and cut into circular medallions - recipe from Epicurious)
Insalata - Insalata di Cose Rotonde (salad of round things, i.e., mache, cucumber coins, zucchini coins, mushroom coins)
Dolce - Crostata di Mirtilli Mandorla (cranberry crostini - why make “just” a pie?)
Buon appetito!
I’ve never seen it played, but I have an idea of what the game “Pin the Pie on the Equation” must be like. The traditional game of “Pin the Tail on the Donkey” involves a picture of a tailless donkey which is hung on the wall. Participants, usually kids, are given a “donkey tail” (made of paper, fake hair, or some such thing), blindfolded, spun around a bit to disorient them, and then told to pin the tail as close to the place where it belongs on the picture of the donkey. Sometimes the tail is held with a pin, a thumbtack, or for safety, sticky tape. After all the players have had a turn, the one who placed the tail closest to where the donkey’s tail belongs is declared the winner.
So, how would “Pin the Pi on the Equation” be played? Instead of a picture of a donkey, put up a poster of the equation for a circle’s circumference. The equation should be missing the pi (e.g. C = 2 __ r). And in place of a donkey tail, give each player a card with the symbol or number for pi on it. Blindfold them, make them dizzy, and see if they can pin the pi close to where it belongs in the equation. Hilarity ensues.
This is our first year celebrating it but we are trying to get a group of co-workers to go to a local pizza place in Montpelier, Vermont called Positive Pi.
Make a pi chain. Strips of paper with ten different colors. Assign a color to a different number. I assigned each row a set of numbers to create a chain, and then we linked all the chains together. I think we had each row create a link that was 120 links long. We had five rows in each class, and I did it for four classes. So the students worked to create a chain that was 2400 links long representing that many digits of pi! We hung the chain from the ceiling by zig-zagging several times from the front of the class to the back of the class! It was great! Oh, and we read “Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi”. Can’t wait for this year!
I have used some online game templates to make Pi Day versions of “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” and “Jeopardy” to play with my students in class. I’ve also designed a Pi Day Scavenger Hunt for the students to work on a few days before Pi Day. You can find these activities on my mirror sites: http://pamburke74.googlepages.com/pidayactivitiesandlinks and http://www.geocities.com/pamburke74/Pi.html
Shelly,
You asked how to play pin the pi on the equation. Not sure how to do that but I did read somewhere about playing pin the radius on the circle. We are going to play that at our pi party.
Happy pi day!
my favorite activity of pi day is at school. in school we had a pi week in math , and if you make a poster and win you get to throw a shaving cream pie in a teachers face.
Make PI day necklaces or bracelets. Get A BUNCH of ten different colored beads, one color designated for each of the ten different digits (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9). Assign one color bead to each number (i.e. red=0, blue= 1, white =2, etc.) Put the different colored beads in cupcake tins to hold them and write their number so students know what number = what color, OR have the students decide their color/number matches. Then students string the beads following the orrder of PI. They will see that there is no pattern, IT’S IRRATIONAL!
By Pam Parks, Delsea Middle School, New Jersey Mar 6, 2008 at 10:51 pm #
I have students calculate their own pi approximations by measuring the circumferences and diameters of various objects. Accurate measurements give the best pi’s. The final object to measure is an oatmeal pie, which the student then eats!
We also construct pi mobiles, and engage in a pi memorization contest. Everyone who recites pi to at least 10 decimal places earns a special pi pencil. The pi recitation champion earns a prize. Last year a 5th grager earned a pi T-shirt for reciting pi to 150 decimal places.
This year we will also play “Pin the Radius on the Circle.”
Does anyone know where you can find the record of the longest pi chain created by a class? The last one I saw was 5.014 digits long. Is there a place where this can be submitted?
when i explain pi i say that its not like pie that we eat its the geek way of saying muliply 3.14 times a number. also that its the circumference of a circle. although pie is a circle!
We have 5 fifth grade teachers, so we make a day of rotating centers in observance of Pi Day - here are a few
* In math class we measure circular objects to discover the ratio of circumference to diameter
*We construct Pi bracelets - adapted from Pi necklaces
*The symbol Pi is placed on a blank sheet of paper; students create their own drawing incorporating the Pi symbol into their illustration -
*Incorporating technology, we reserve the computer lab and conduct an Internet scavenger hunt of 10 questions - we end up celebrating with all “circle” foods!
I celebrate Pi Day in my elementary classroom every year (this will be my third celebration). Of course, I have a posted countdown for about a month beforehand to build up the suspense. We make Pi Day t-shirts (tie-dye with lettering), have contests for memorizing digits of pi, read Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi, sing Pi Day songs, share circular snacks (including pi) and/or make pizzas, measure circular objects to find pi, pop balloons at 1:59 (3.14159…), make Pi Day cards for families….
My math teacher is big on Pi Day, so we have a big school assembly to celebrate. Last year, we had pi eating contests, threw pies at teachers, had relays, and did so many fun things!
i like to watch the movie pi all day long.
My favorite Pi day activity was eating dounuts and then looking where in pi your birthday false like if it is on Jan 1st 2000 you would write 1100 and then you would get in which part of pi it is in.Pi day is awesome my math teacher was excited about it. 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751 I love Pi!
I had lemon merange pie in math class. It was awesome!
I missed out this year, I cannot believe it! I have Pi printed to 500 000 places on a sheet of A0 lying on my desk. I have been looking for secret messages in it. I haven’t found any but I am sure that they are there, staring me in the face.
For Pi day, I bake an apple pie and then a mock apple pie for my chemistry class. When I bake the crust, I cut the symbol for pi in it to allow the steam to escape. Then, we do a taste test of the 2 different pies and the students prefer the mock apple pie (made with Ritz crackers) over the real apple pie. Funny how food chemistry works.
i think that pi day is AWESOME !!!!!!! i absolutely LOVE it! i like to sing the song and have pi day parties
in fifth grade, my teacher brought n little mini pie crusts and we filled them with pudding and whipped cream and then had a snack
Playing the music of PI:
http://www.avoision.com/experiments/pi10k/index.php
Throwing Pie at someone when they get Pi wrong
I ate pie and we played a game with some software that I created. It allows you to enter as many digits of pi as you know and then it checks them and if you get it wrong on such and such a number it tells you what number you messed up on. It then displays that number then all the other numbers neede to get to the 100th digit of Pi. I made it in my spare time, so it is not too cool, but it does use my voice behind the digits.
2*pi pops up quite a bit in applied work. 2*pi radians is also a unit circle. My wife and I celebrated 6/28 by getting married on a mathematically holistic day. As a numbernerd, I have an undergrad math degree.
What is your favorite Pi Day activity ?
Well my favorite Pi Day activity at my school was seeing my team won and seeing the princaple get pie thrown in his face !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
making pi neclaces and hats and bracelets
drinking beverages and eating pies from safeway. Each cut is designated by radian measurements only.
This is really all I remember of Pi :3.14159265358979323 etc.
Aheheheh… :D
I watched the music video for Pi and we had a contest for the most numbers of Pi memorized which was 69!
Eating pie
My high schools math classes joined together and every period of every participating math class we made color-coded paper chains where the colors represent a number. We were trying to break the whole world record.
Am going to a Pi(e) Party this evening………nothing on the menu but pies……….
Sam
It was an epidemic at my school today. Everyone had pie for Pi Day. I had pie in my Russian and Literature class and everyone was going to this teacher’s class during math because she had about six different pies. It was a good Pi day.
This year we did a teamwork building activity with our homebase classes (these are like homerooms). The students were to build a chain out of colored paper to represent pi where each color represented a number 0-9. The students got 5 minutes to work out a plan and then they had 10 minutes with no talking to build the chain. Any group that talked lost 10 links. We had 15 strips of each color and that allowed students to make a chain of 112 links.
Today I spread the joy throughout school!! Nobody really knew what Pi day was (*gasp*) so I had to explain it over and over, but that’s fine because now they are in the know!
Favorite activity- reciting pi from memory in between classes to the 70th place. Extremely fun, especially if you get a beat going and have others who know it. Reciting in rounds gets really interesting!!
Eating pie in my math class. :D
Going to a restaurant that begins with Pi and ordering pie :)
In my Math Class, we make chains of the numbers of Pi. We also eat pie. Class is just a crazy time on pi day.
We didn’t get to eat Pie on Pi day until after 3:09:26 pm. I can’t wait until Pi day in the year 2015, when we can have our Pie as early as 9:26:53 am.
Convert to military time and you’ll see why.
To share in the holiday spirit, I wear my Pi shirt, discuss equations containing the constant, and bring home pies for everyone at my house. Depending on the possibility, I may also bring pies to friends.
My traditional pies are key lime meringue and lemon meringue.
my faviorte pi day activity was when my teacher brought us all pie!! all different kinds! he also made this pi jepordy game and he gave us a quick pi history lesson; which i actually learnrd alot of intresting facts from!
Watching Pi on DVD!!
my math teacher’s tee shirt said “irrational and well-rounded” on the back.
My friend be came in with a t-shirt from RPI (college) that had a big R and instead of “PI” it had the pi symbol…lol!!
make up a song about pi
UNIT CIRCLES!!!!!!!!! there is so much PI!
(not to mention pie in math….the edible kind!)
eating Pi (raspberry this year !)
Making Pi day lolcats
http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/View.aspx?ciid=763299
writing pi haiku:
magic ratio
circumference/diameter
perfect little pi
For math class today we ate pie!! it was awesome!
Watching math teachers hand out pie and start randomly reciting 3.14159…
my friends and I calculated the price of Dominos pizza per square cm.
In the UK this breaks down thus
Inches Diameter/cm diameter/price/picepercm2
7 / 17.78 / 5.99 / 2.4137
9.5 / 24.13 / 9.99 / 2.1856
11.5 / 29.21 / 12.99/ 1.9394
13.5 / 34.29 / 14.99/ 1.6240
so you can see that buying large pizzas is more economical ! thanks PI !
Pie.
Strawberry Pi.
Pumpkin Pi.
American Pi.
Moon Pi.
Starting with breakfast pie (quiche, etc.) along with ‘healthy’ pies such as pumpkin (which is a vegetable. Yes it is. Really.)
Then, lunch is Pizza Pie, of course. Momo’s. Like 2 feet or more in diameter.
After that, dessert pie. Like 20 (pumpkin, rhubarb, apple, key lime, key lime mango, another key lime, chocolate silk, buttermilk, sweet potato, maple and walnut…you get the idea. At 2pmish (1:59)
After all that, we start getting irrational.
In our 7th grade math class, we all bring in circle food items (cookies, doughnuts, etc.) and measure the circumpherence. We also have a contest to see who can recite the most numbers of pi, if you win you get to ‘pi’ a classmate, or a teacher. Not really PIE, but PI, as in they wear a plate around their neck that says “I’ve been Pied (pi symbol)!” On pie day we count down to 1:59:26 in the afternoon, and yell (at the top of our lungs) HAPPY PI DAY! And i happen to be in math at that time!
Getting free pi stickers and playing fun pi games…!! woohooo!!! pi day!!!
I like to eat pie
and pretend to be tai
and eat pizza
cuz i’m cool
Eating Pie at 1:59
I like to do something irrational but I am afraid I will never get to the end of it.
One of the guys in our company drove 3.14 miles to pick up a pie so we could celebrate properly at 1:59.
You can check out the photos here: http://www.analtech.com/analtech-celebrates-pi-day-2008.html
I have a long-standing lunch with a friend on Pi Days. What’s for lunch? Pizza, of course!
dividing the circumfence by the diameter
Never heard of pie day before today. But i love math. And in honor of it, i’ll probably go get me a slice-o-pie
Eating pie, what else?!
I also like to eat…thats what I do best.
Yelling “Happy pi day!” at 1:59:26
My favorite thing to do on PI day is to try to figure out the square inches in a pie given only the radius of the pie. Someday, I know I will get it.
I eat pie at 3:14 PM
i love to eat pie and i luv math so i eat pie and find the diamiter of my bowl that i eat it out of!!
Eating pie in math class :]
Pi-ku for Pi Day:
Pi r squared say some
Pies are round with flaky crust
Weight watchers be damned
In Maths, Our teacher got really enthusiastic =)
He made a pi powerpoint, dowloaded a song about pi, showed us some pi videos, and brought in little homemade pi food, like biscuits in the shape of pi and buns with pi on.
looking for picture of a pie chain.
Baking pi in the shape of the letter pi and dancing around at 1:59pm!
Watching the movie PI while eating some pie then doing some pie charts for work
Wearing my Hard Rock PI Day t-shirt and teaching my students about the wonders of that crazy little shirt. PI - well rounded, but irrational.
I celebrate my daughter’s birthday which just happens to coincide with Einstein’s birthday AND PI DAY!
This year, we’re gonna throw hotdogs to calculate PI!
jer
i eat pi
Eating pies with my students!
i eat pie
Reciting pi after ”cheers!” at 1:59 (3/14 1:59) and having pi symbol-shaped pie at teatime
Have yourself a merry little Pi Day
Here’s the parameter:
Divide the earth’s
circumference by diameter.
Wish yourself a merry little Pi Day
Count your digits loud
See how many
Numbers you recall - be proud!
And have yourself a merry little Pi Day now!
Up until now I wasn’t aware of PI Day, but in honor of, I’ll throw in the movie PI by Darren Aronofsky.
“As soon as you discard scientific rigor, you’re no longer a mathematician, you’re a numerologist.”
Pi (pie ) eating contest: whoever eats 3.14 pies first wins!
eating pie
apple pie cherry pie the best
I’m buying a couple of pizza pies from Ledo’s pizza for my office. Their pie’s are squared … get it! pi r^2 :)
ledospizza.com
I eat PI! I hug PI! I even watch tv with PI!
Granted I’m 48 and not in school, but two of my associates and I are math appreciators and have celebrated the last two Pi Days by going to the best pie place in town - the local Chinese food restaurant…no joke!
My friend Cherise has created an entire dance routine dedicated to her fascination with irrational numbers. The finale is dedicated specifically to Pi and is quite a sight to see. Every year we all try to get together to see the annual performance….
I eat pie and watch the movie “A Beautiful Mind” in my math class.
my favorite thing about pi day is that we get to eat yummy pi.
This is our first Pi Day Celebration as a math department and we are gathering today during lunch to do the very best thing —- eat Pi(e)s.
We love eating pie. Our math teaqcher lets us eat pie in class. The only thing we have to do is research pi.
People at work usually bring in pie!! YUM
Here in the UK, we celebrate Pi Day on 22 July since we write the DAY first, followed by the MONTH. Hence, 3/14 is nonsensical as there are only 12 months.
So, we approximate Pi = 22/7 which is 22 July.
eating square PI
By marissa Feb 28, 2008 at 4:56 pm # wrote:
> we have pi day comin up nat my school and idk wat to do > ..grrr stupid math class
I’m going to be getting annoyed at the state of education in this country
Maths Class!!!!
Making happy pi day signs
I work with people from many countries so we all bring pi (pie) native to our homeland very much so. I bring a durian and pumpkin pi (pie) with green tea.
March 14 is my birthday, so my favorite activity is…
Is eating cake
Today we had a competition on who could recite the most digits of pi. The winner knew 356 digits and could have kept on going. We told her to stop because it was the end of the lesson
Ok, I know this is a mathematical pi day, but my favorite activity is none other than eating good old pie and sharing with my friends and family!
This is my 10th annual Pi Day delivering pies to all my friends. (Up to 100 pies have been delivered in a day.) It’s great to see their faces when I show up at their door. They only expect it if I’ve come the year before.
Students are writing their own piems- poems whose words mimic the digits of pi in the numbers of letters in each word.
Eating pie, of course!
in my algebra honors class we are bringing pies in and presenting our projects about pie.dosen’t that sound fun!!(I know i’m such a nerd!!
We held a tshirt design contest, then the kids wear the shirts on 3-14. Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi is a great book to read aloud. Measurement activity with different circles to find the pattern of the pi constant. The necklace activity using different colored beads for all the digits, with one large bead to represent the whole number 3. Finally, of course, eating pie is a must.
a competition on reciting the digits of pi
We eat Pi shaped Pie. :D
We play pi jeopardy, with lots of words that have pi in it
Well we have a contest to see who could memorize the most Pi numbers
In my Calculus class were are having a Pi Day Party!!! We all are making pies and bringing them in. Then we’ll all share in class while we do various nerdy, but fun, Pi activities!!!!
I LOVE bringing pies and other circular things to school on pi day to use as problems to do math with (like find the circumference or the diameter) while having your mouth water while you calculate the numbers. The best part is the end…when you EAT them!
relating the story of the Star Trek episode where Mr Spock used the calculation to keep a rouge computer from setting on its task of destroying the Enterprise
We celebrate by having pies during the lesson. To earn a slice of pie, students must bring along some pi trivia or a pi joke
We read “Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi” by Cindy Neuschwander, eat our family’s favorite pie and sing happy birthday to Albert Einstien. Maybe we’ll come up with something new this year.
The Horry County (SC) Memorial Library will be holding its annual staff development day on Pi Day. Refreshments will include pies made by the staff members who are hosting the workshop that day.
My math teacher plans to recite the fist couple hundred digits of pi
My English teacher says we should write multiple pie recipes while using as many participles as possible
My Science teacher says we should explore the chemical compounds of pi
My history teacher says we should talk about how the number pi was found
I say I should be able to take a nap during all of this because my dad used to be able to recite 800 somethin odd digits of pi back when I was born.
We have a contest to see who can say the most digits of pi and they go in to the pi hall of fame
Here at HDMS in Hillsboro, NH, our favorite Pi Activity is eating PIE of course! We will be fundraising for a Washington DC trip and selling slices of pie!
I CELEBRATE PIE DAY BY HAVING A PI CONTEST HAHA
YEP DATS WAT POPPIN
HAPPY PI DAY
STAR FROM OLDBRIDGE
I celebrate pi day with a meal featuring “round things”. This year, it’s an Italian theme:
Pasta - Ravioli di spinaci
Secondo - Lombo di Maiale Ripieno di Mortadella con Patate Arrosto (pork loin roast stuffed with mortadella, rolled, and cut into circular medallions - recipe from Epicurious)
Insalata - Insalata di Cose Rotonde (salad of round things, i.e., mache, cucumber coins, zucchini coins, mushroom coins)
Dolce - Crostata di Mirtilli Mandorla (cranberry crostini - why make “just” a pie?)
Buon appetito!
My favorite thing to do on pi day is to see how many places out u cna rember it!!!
I love Dungeons & Dragons so much!
playing hoola hoops
eating pie
In math class, we do a string art project and we must make shapes and then find pi. Then we all have PIE!
I’ve never seen it played, but I have an idea of what the game “Pin the Pie on the Equation” must be like. The traditional game of “Pin the Tail on the Donkey” involves a picture of a tailless donkey which is hung on the wall. Participants, usually kids, are given a “donkey tail” (made of paper, fake hair, or some such thing), blindfolded, spun around a bit to disorient them, and then told to pin the tail as close to the place where it belongs on the picture of the donkey. Sometimes the tail is held with a pin, a thumbtack, or for safety, sticky tape. After all the players have had a turn, the one who placed the tail closest to where the donkey’s tail belongs is declared the winner.
So, how would “Pin the Pi on the Equation” be played? Instead of a picture of a donkey, put up a poster of the equation for a circle’s circumference. The equation should be missing the pi (e.g. C = 2 __ r). And in place of a donkey tail, give each player a card with the symbol or number for pi on it. Blindfold them, make them dizzy, and see if they can pin the pi close to where it belongs in the equation. Hilarity ensues.
Simple, no?
eating alot of pie
This is our first year celebrating it but we are trying to get a group of co-workers to go to a local pizza place in Montpelier, Vermont called Positive Pi.
Make a pi chain. Strips of paper with ten different colors. Assign a color to a different number. I assigned each row a set of numbers to create a chain, and then we linked all the chains together. I think we had each row create a link that was 120 links long. We had five rows in each class, and I did it for four classes. So the students worked to create a chain that was 2400 links long representing that many digits of pi! We hung the chain from the ceiling by zig-zagging several times from the front of the class to the back of the class! It was great! Oh, and we read “Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi”. Can’t wait for this year!
I have used some online game templates to make Pi Day versions of “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” and “Jeopardy” to play with my students in class. I’ve also designed a Pi Day Scavenger Hunt for the students to work on a few days before Pi Day. You can find these activities on my mirror sites: http://pamburke74.googlepages.com/pidayactivitiesandlinks and http://www.geocities.com/pamburke74/Pi.html
Shelly,
You asked how to play pin the pi on the equation. Not sure how to do that but I did read somewhere about playing pin the radius on the circle. We are going to play that at our pi party.
Happy pi day!
My math teacher has us celebrate pi day by bringing in pies for extra credit and we eat them for the day instead of doing work
my favorite activity of pi day is at school. in school we had a pi week in math , and if you make a poster and win you get to throw a shaving cream pie in a teachers face.
Make PI day necklaces or bracelets. Get A BUNCH of ten different colored beads, one color designated for each of the ten different digits (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9). Assign one color bead to each number (i.e. red=0, blue= 1, white =2, etc.) Put the different colored beads in cupcake tins to hold them and write their number so students know what number = what color, OR have the students decide their color/number matches. Then students string the beads following the orrder of PI. They will see that there is no pattern, IT’S IRRATIONAL!
eating pi and soving circle and pi equations
Eat my favorite pie: Lemon Meringue.
I have students calculate their own pi approximations by measuring the circumferences and diameters of various objects. Accurate measurements give the best pi’s. The final object to measure is an oatmeal pie, which the student then eats!
We also construct pi mobiles, and engage in a pi memorization contest. Everyone who recites pi to at least 10 decimal places earns a special pi pencil. The pi recitation champion earns a prize. Last year a 5th grager earned a pi T-shirt for reciting pi to 150 decimal places.
This year we will also play “Pin the Radius on the Circle.”
Does anyone know where you can find the record of the longest pi chain created by a class? The last one I saw was 5.014 digits long. Is there a place where this can be submitted?
when i explain pi i say that its not like pie that we eat its the geek way of saying muliply 3.14 times a number. also that its the circumference of a circle. although pie is a circle!
I make and share square pies. When people are confused by it, I tell them that pie are square.
i sleep with pi
pie is not the same as pi… pi is a greek letter and pie is a food so stop saying you like pi!!!
i really enjoyed singing about pi last year at the festival, i hope i can attend pi day this year, all my mathematical love lucy :D x
we have pi day comin up nat my school and idk wat to do ..grrr stupid math class
Eating Pie! =)
I also like to see how many numbers kids can memorize! =0
birthday party.. it’s my sister’s birthday.
Wearing my chicken pot PI tee!it has a chicken inside a pot with the PI symbol on it!~~~~~~FUNKAY~~~~~~
it’s my birthday!
EATING PI(E)!!!
Eat PIE :)
eating pi and yelling “pi time”
We have 5 fifth grade teachers, so we make a day of rotating centers in observance of Pi Day - here are a few
* In math class we measure circular objects to discover the ratio of circumference to diameter
*We construct Pi bracelets - adapted from Pi necklaces
*The symbol Pi is placed on a blank sheet of paper; students create their own drawing incorporating the Pi symbol into their illustration -
*Incorporating technology, we reserve the computer lab and conduct an Internet scavenger hunt of 10 questions - we end up celebrating with all “circle” foods!
I celebrate Pi Day in my elementary classroom every year (this will be my third celebration). Of course, I have a posted countdown for about a month beforehand to build up the suspense. We make Pi Day t-shirts (tie-dye with lettering), have contests for memorizing digits of pi, read Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi, sing Pi Day songs, share circular snacks (including pi) and/or make pizzas, measure circular objects to find pi, pop balloons at 1:59 (3.14159…), make Pi Day cards for families….
Deb (who posted on February 20th at 2:23 pm),
Can you explain how you play “Pin the Pi on the Equation”?
Thanks,
Shelly
My math teacher is big on Pi Day, so we have a big school assembly to celebrate. Last year, we had pi eating contests, threw pies at teachers, had relays, and did so many fun things!
Instead of playing Pin the Tail on the Donkey, my students created Pin the Pi on the Equation. We play that on Pi day.
We also eat Pi and ice cream.
All food is pie.
We are hosting a pie-party. BYOF (F = filling)
eating pie is so cliche.
Since it is also my birthday, I have friends over to eat Pie and celebrate.
I’m throwing a party, so I’ll be stocking many different types of Pi!
Pizza Pi, Apple Pi, Pi Napples, Pi-ne Nuts!
I go out to Bakers Square and order a piece of strawberry rhubarb. Yum.
eating pie is always a good one!
Eat Pie