Pi Day 3-14

I recently discovered Pi Day! And it happens to be on my son's birthday as well as Einstein's! Pi day is 3 - 14 or March 14th. You can do all sorts of cool things to celebrate Math for this fun holiday!

I have put a few websites, books, lapbook stuff below so check them out!

First we went to the Pi Day Website Nate first of all really wanted to know how they came up with Pi. So we took an oatmeal container and wrapped a piece of yarn around it. Then used that same string to go across the diameter of the container. It went across 3 and a smidgen more times. Thus 3.14.

We tried memorizing the first 12 digits of Pi and learned that someone holds the record for memorizing the most digits - it is over 60,000 digits.

Then we got out Nate's World Record book and found who holds the record for figuring the most digits in Pi and it is to over a trillion digits! Yasumasa Kanada is the person to do this.

We are planning on having Pizza on Pi day as well as Pinapple and Pie! :)

We love to lapbook around here and just at the time we discovered Pi Day the Yahoo group for lapbooking I am on (Live and Learn Press Yahoo group) announced a free lapbook at their site Live and Learn Press to all of its subscribers. If you would like to receive it - join the Yahoo group. It is a great group and you will gain so many valuable resources.

Here are some books we have on hold through the library:

Sir Cumference and Dragon of Pi by Cindy Neuschwander (If you haven't checked out this series you must do so. They are great books for math studies.)

Piece of Pi: Wit-sharpening, Brain-bruising, Number-Crunching Activities with Pi by Naila Bokhari (activity book)

The Joy of Pi by David Blatner (middle to high school range)

A History of Pi by Petr Beckmann (high school) (reference to million years old earth on first page)

If you like worksheets check out: Enchanted Learning and Edhelper.com

To obtain different notebooking pages to write your findings of Pi, go to Notebooking Pages.

Other Pi activities can be found at the following websites:

Education World- Plan a Pi Day

Plan a Pi Day celebration.

Pi Day Resources

Exploratorium

Teachpi.org