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.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Square Root Day 3/3/09
My math classes had fun on Square Root Day. That is a day when the date is the square root of the year. The next one will occur on 4-4-16. Enjoy the video.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Writing How-to Papers
The Thursday after Mardi Gras we had an interesting day. We combined measuring skills from math with writing skills from English and learned to write a how-to paper. Here is a video of our day.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss
Today is Dr. Seuss’ 105th birthday! I spent a lot of time this past weekend surfing the web looking for a great lesson to help celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday. I found a wonderful lesson sponsored by Read Across America and Kid Thing. It included the free download of four of his most popular books, but due to technical difficulties I could not show them to my class. So I read two of his books to my students instead. I then asked them to write a letter to Dr. Seuss telling him which book they liked better and why.
I love technology, but sometimes you have to have a backup plan ready for days when technology just doesn't want to cooperate. Tomorrow is another day!
Sunday, March 1, 2009
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