PI Day

For PI Day this year, we’re going to meet up at a local neighborhood park that has a 1 mile around track, and activities! Sign up HERE and check it out!

Kids activity sheet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BaXytfFCWjXFcYEOes2ordNi6ceIxgmnKbAFlyI6P7A/edit?usp=sharing

Sunday March 14th

1pm: Eat Pie! (I’ll buy non gluten free chocolate and pumpkin) and math activities at my house! Sign up above so you get my address.

Then Meet at Shady Oaks park and run/walk/bike/scoot 3.14 miles with masks and distancing on the Odette Morrow Trail.

Pi Day activity stations (Proposed):

• Tv showing how PI is made based on this video most likely:

• Buffons needle experiment (finding pi by dropping toothpicks on a paper with lines…

• Penny Wars except with marbles. Essentially getting kids to realize mathematically how wider cylinders hold much more than ones with smaller radii. (If I can get the radii to align with Pythagorean Theorem even better, may go to Lowe’s for that.)

Rope-Radius activity: I have some ropes with various radii as well as sidewalk chalk and while a parent holds the rope in the center, the kids will hold the chalk down to create a circle. The intent is to help kids understand a circle is ‘many points from the radii’ and if they are old enough, that a radius is half the diameter and start to bring in that vocabulary of circumference as well.

Various PI Day videos of years past:

2008:

2009: Borrowing students sunglasses and chain… wouldn’t do this again but the best part is the CSU Fresno administrator walking by and … looking at us…

2012 (the second-most record)

In 2013 Rodrigo Gutierrez set the record for most digits memorized of my classes at 224 digits! (Old Website)