Pi Day a Success

On Friday, March 13th (one day before actual Pi Day on March 14th), the 5th graders celebrated and learned what Pi is all about. Taking a variety of pies of all sizes, students measured the circumference and diameter and then after dividing realized that the circumference of a circle is about 3 times that of the diameter. In fact, it is about 3.14 times. After math, students showed that they not only know Pi is 3.14, but that it is an irrational number that goes on forever. Our Pi Memorization Contest took 40 minutes to get through everyone. The top place goes to Zachary this year, as he memorized 126 digits of Pi in only 5 days. Jolie, Sophie, Valorie, Tyler and Jake also placed in the top 5, all memorizing 53 digits or more and even resulting in a tie for 5th place.