Celebrating Pi Day

On Friday, March 13th our math classes took part in Pi Day. What is Pi Day you ask? It is a fun-filled day that celebrates pi. It is usually celebrated on 3-14 at 1:59 (the first 6 digits of pi), but the 14th fell on Saturday this year, so we celebrated a day early. Pi is used to find the circumference of a circle. If you multiply the diameter (or the radius times two) of a circle by 3.14 (the rounded off value of pi) you get the approximate circumference of the circle. Pi is an irrational, nonrepeating number. The students learned if they printed the first one billion digits of pi it would take 370,000 pieces of paper and over eight days to print out on an average printer. It would also kill about 4.6 trees! They really enjoyed finding their birthday in the digits of pi. Watch the video to see more about our celebration.