Pi Day Competition

After giving 5th grade students the first 500 digits of pi on Monday, and allowing for 5 days of independent study of the digits, we held a contest today. Each 5th grade student stood in front of their peers and recited as many digits as they could. This was pretty impressive. Top place went to Jenna from Mr. Newman's class, who memorized an amazing 224 digits and could recite them in order. This broke the previous record of 208 and 204. Second place was 129 digits by Alexis, 3rd place was a tie between Matt and Miles, 4th place had our own Ashley who memorized 62 digits and actually sung them to us in two different songs. We had a tie for 5th place with 56 digits by Ben and Angela. Pretty amazing and proud of these 5th graders.