It’s that time of year to celebrate everyone’s favourite irrational number: pi!
Check out this video about Pi Day (it’s focused on the US, but gives some background):
Even though the actual “Pi Day” is Saturday March 14, Division 7 decided to celebrate early. Students have been rotating through various pi-related stations over the past couple of days. Pi doesn’t show up in our math curriculum until grade 7, so for us, we’re exploring this math concept just for fun!
Our Pi Day activities included team work, games, and art. Today we celebrated Pi Day early by having a “Pi Off” to see who can memorize the longest decimal of pi (the official world record is 70 030 digits, set by Suresh Kumar Sharma! It took him 17 hours to say all those digits.) I was AMAZED how well our students did! Our winner was able to recite 156 decimal places! ONE HUNDRED FIFTY SIX!
We loved this song to help us practice (I’m sorry to the families affected by the repeated singing of pi):
Did you catch that? Check out one million digits of pi here.