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Teacher
Wil Zambole drops a plastic cup to begin a Pi Day lesson in probabilities. |
Pi Day
activities mean fun lessons for math students
 Something
was up, that much was obvious, in the math wing on March 13 as the sweet
scent of pie wafted down the hall. Pi Day has been an annual event in the
ACHS math department for several years, normally celebrated on March 14
to have fun with the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle
(3.14).
Activities in many
math classes included homemade Pi T-shirts, Pi math problems, a
Pi song, and, of course, eating pie.
The value of pi has
been the subject of study for thousands of years (click
here for a history of pi). Students in Wil Zambole’s classes recreated Buffon’s Needle,
an 18th century experiment for estimating the value of Pi.
 Typing
out the first billion decimals of Pi would result in a string of numbers
stretching from New York to Kansas. To date, Pi has been calculated to more
than 51 billion decimal places (to see the first million digits, click
here). |
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