There's a Pi day?

NEWS RELEASE

HURON-SUPERIOR CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD

*************************** Pi celebrated more than 3.14 times

SAULT STE. MARIE - Students at St. Basil Secondary School hosted an early celebration of International Pi Day (March 14 or 3/14) on Thursday, March 11.

The secondary school played hosts as Grade 7 and 8 students from St. Pius X Catholic School participated in a variety of instructional activities associated with Pi.

In a math coaching initiative organized by special assignment math coach Ms. Parniak, stations were set up in the St. Basil library all themed to working with Pi.

A similar Pi Day Package was set up for every HSCDSB school for students from Grade 7 to 12.

Among the special activities was a memory test where students had five minutes to memorize as many successive digits of Pi and then recite them.

“Pi-oetry” was formatted to get students to write a themed poem using words with the number of letters corresponding to the numbers of Pi, beginning with 3.14 and then going on - to infinity (as in an eight letter word equivalent to the twelfth number in Pi).

Students also held a scavenger hunt in the library with the goal being to find books that had an association is some way (any way) with Pi.

They also set out to create a colour-coded paper chain comprised of links representing the first 1,000 digits of Pi.

For those who have forgotten what Pi is - minus the “e”, here is a brief explanation (much briefer than Pi) according to www.piday.org

Pi, Greek letter, is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.

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