Pi Day Celebrations Add a Tasty Twist to Math Class

Century sixth graders have a yummy Pi Day

Sixth graders at Century School combined a fun exercise in standards-based math skills with a sweet treat for Pi Day on Friday, March 14. Pi, the proportion between the diameter of a circle and its circumference, begins with 3.14 with digits continuing forever to the right of the decimal point. It’s an irrational number, meaning there’s no accurate way to express it as a fraction. It’s a transcendental number, meaning there’s no way to pull it …

Celebrating Ancient Greek Math on Pi Day

Ancient Greek letter and math symbol pi. Credit: Shisma/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY 4.0 Math fanatics worldwide and everyone else who just loves pi (or pie) celebrate Pi Day on March 14. Pi was named for the ancient Greek symbol π, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. The number’s first three digits are 3.14. Pi Day is observed on March 14, since 3, 1 and 4 are the three most significant digits of π in the decimal form. On Ma…

Pi Day Celebrations Add a Tasty Twist to Math Class

Teachers say the national holiday reminds students that math can be fun.