International Pi Day

On the occasion of the International Day of Mathematics and Pi Day, fifth and sixth-grade students had fun with various activities in the math section with their math teacher, Natasha Milosevic. While the Pi song played in the background, students strung beads and made Pi bracelets, competed to see who could write the most Pi words, and solved mathematical puzzles. There were other games planned, but time was limited, so we saved them for future math sessions.

Fun Facts

On the recommendation of the International Mathematical Union, the 40th General Assembly of UNESCO decided to declare March 14th (Pi Day) as the International Day of Mathematics. Pi is a mathematical constant widely used in mathematics and physics. Pi is an irrational number, and the number of its decimals is infinite, so the approximate value of Pi is 3.14. That's why March 14th (or 3/14 in American date format, month/day) was chosen as Pi Day. For centuries, mathematicians have tried to calculate the last decimal of Pi. Now we know that it is impossible to calculate this number due to its special properties. To date, billions of its decimals have been calculated. Pi is also called Ludolph's number because the mathematician Ludolph van Ceulen (born in 1540 in Germany) devoted almost his entire life to calculating Pi and gained fame by calculating 35 decimals.

You can see the chronology of computing the decimals of this interesting number HERE.

Have fun and find your date of birth or any other sequence of numbers within Pi HERE.