Pi Day Activities

The Greeks used one of their letters of the alphabet to stand for the ratio of the circumference of any circle to its diameter.  They called this ratio Pi which is approximately equal to 3.14 or 22/7.  People all over the world celebrate pi day on March 14 (3-14).

ISB will be sponsoring a series of activities to celebrate pi the week of March 13-15.

WEEK LONG ACTIVITIES: 

these will be given out on Monday, and homerooms have until Lunch Wednesday to submit answers:
  • Create a pi "limerick" Individual students are invited to create a Pi limerick poster complete with art work.  The limerick and art work will be judged on content and creativity.  Posters are to be 8.5 X 11" and completed by Wednesday at break.  Turn limericks in to Mrs. Jovovic. A sample limerick is below:
      There once was a number named pi
      Who was quite an irrational guy
      With digits nonending
      The next always pending
      This  decimal form  just wouldn't die!
    (30, 20, and 10 spirit points for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd)
  • M & M Estimation A large jar of candies will rotate through all the math classes.  Each class will come up with their estimate of how many candies are in the jar.  This must be given to Mr. Stutz or Mr. Habeck by break on Wednesday. 
      • (20, 10, and 5 spirit points for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd)
  • Pi digit memorization Homerooms will compete in memorizing the digits of Pi. At lunch on Wednesday students will meet in the music room and recite as many digits as they can remember. Any number of students from each homeroom can participate, with Spirit points going to the homerooms of the top 5 winners. The first 1000 digits are listed below.
      • (50, 40, 30, 20, and 10 spirit points for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th)

DAILY ACTIVITIES: 

these will be handed out to each homeroom at the start of Monday and Tuesday and must be returned during the homeroom period at the end of the day.
  • MONDAY: Trivia Games Classes have all day to answer trivia questions about Pi, and hand in to advisor during homeroom period (30, 20, and 10 spirit points for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd)
  • TUESDAY: Word games A set of 4 questions looking for specific words containing Pi will be given - classes have all day to work on them, and hand in to advisor during homeroom period(30, 20, and 10 spirit points for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd)
  • WEDNESDAY: Head Games Homerooms guess the total circumference of Mr. Stutz’s head in millimeters and bring answers to lunch activities. (30, 20, and 10 spirit points for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd)

WEDNESDAY LUNCH (Music Room)

  • Announcement of spirit points from events to date
  • Measurement of Mr. Stutz’s head and calculation of spirit points
  • Pi digit recitation and awarding of points to homerooms based on winners.

here are the first 1,000 digits of Pi (in groups of 10):

3.1415926535 8979323846  2643383279 5028841971  6939937510 5820974944  5923078164 0628620899  8628034825 3421170679 8214808651 3282306647  0938446095 5058223172  5359408128 4811174502  8410270193 8521105559  6446229489 5493038196 4428810975 6659334461  2847564823 3786783165  2712019091 4564856692  3460348610 4543266482  1339360726 0249141273 7245870066 0631558817  4881520920 9628292540  9171536436 7892590360  0113305305 4882046652  1384146951 9415116094 3305727036 5759591953  0921861173 8193261179  3105118548 0744623799  6274956735 1885752724  8912279381 8301194912 9833673362 4406566430  8602139494 6395224737  1907021798 6094370277  0539217176 2931767523  8467481846 7669405132 0005681271 4526356082  7785771342 7577896091  7363717872 1468440901  2249534301 4654958537  1050792279 6892589235 4201995611 2129021960  8640344181 5981362977  4771309960 5187072113  4999999837 2978049951  0597317328 1609631859 5024459455 3469083026  4252230825 3344685035  2619311881 7101000313  7838752886 5875332083  8142061717 7669147303 5982534904 2875546873  1159562863 8823537875  9375195778 1857780532  1712268066 1300192787  6611195909 2164201989