{"id":5279,"date":"2026-03-13T11:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T18:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/?p=5279"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T18:56:24","slug":"pi-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/2026\/03\/13\/pi-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Pi Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5289 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/files\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-13-115106-300x198.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/files\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-13-115106-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/files\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-13-115106.png 529w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>It&#8217;s that time of year to celebrate everyone&#8217;s favourite irrational number: pi!<\/p>\n<p>Check out this video about Pi Day (it&#8217;s focused on the US, but gives some background):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gBWb0b0RV1o?si=XqZBiErfbzb0AY5e\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Even though the actual &#8220;Pi Day&#8221; 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&#8217;t show up in our math curriculum until grade 7, so for us, we&#8217;re exploring this math concept just for fun!<\/p>\n<p>Our Pi Day activities included team work, games, and art. Today we celebrated Pi Day early by having a &#8220;Pi Off&#8221; 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!<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\r\n\t#foogallery-gallery-5288 .fg-image {\r\n        width: 640px;\r\n    }\r\n<\/style>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"foogallery foogallery-container foogallery-image-viewer foogallery-link-image foogallery-lightbox-foobox fg-center fg-image-viewer fg-light fg-border-thin fg-shadow-outline fg-loading-default fg-loaded-fade-in fg-caption-hover fg-hover-fade fg-hover-zoom fg-ready\" id=\"foogallery-gallery-5288\" data-foogallery=\"{&quot;item&quot;:{&quot;showCaptionTitle&quot;:true,&quot;showCaptionDescription&quot;:true},&quot;lazy&quot;:true,&quot;template&quot;:{&quot;loop&quot;:true}}\" >\r\n\t<div class=\"fiv-inner\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"fiv-inner-container\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/files\/2026\/03\/piday1.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"5281\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/files\/cache\/2026\/03\/piday1\/490690936.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22640%22%20height%3D%22360%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20640%20360%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/files\/2026\/03\/piday2.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"5282\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/files\/cache\/2026\/03\/piday2\/544073005.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22640%22%20height%3D%22360%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20640%20360%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/files\/2026\/03\/piday4.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"5284\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/files\/cache\/2026\/03\/piday4\/1523096967.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22640%22%20height%3D%22360%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20640%20360%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/files\/2026\/03\/piday3.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"5283\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/files\/cache\/2026\/03\/piday3\/2188604193.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22640%22%20height%3D%22360%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20640%20360%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<div class=\"fiv-ctrls\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"fiv-prev\"><span>Prev<\/span><\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<label class=\"fiv-count\"><span class=\"fiv-count-current\">1<\/span>of<span class=\"fiv-count-total\">4<\/span><\/label>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"fiv-next\"><span>Next<\/span><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>We loved this song to help us practice (I&#8217;m sorry to the families affected by the repeated singing of pi):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3HRkKznJoZA?si=MAN8i6Ej4uUxx0RK\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Did you catch that? Check out one million digits of pi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piday.org\/million\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year to celebrate everyone&#8217;s favourite irrational number: pi! Check out this video about Pi Day (it&#8217;s focused on the US, but gives some background): Even though the actual &#8220;Pi Day&#8221; is Saturday March 14, Division 7 decided to celebrate early. Students have been rotating through various pi-related stations over the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7091,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,12,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5279"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5294,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279\/revisions\/5294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/couttsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}