For those who are unaware, pi is a math term. You would think that after 14 years of school I would know exactly what it means, but I don't. However I do know how to use it!
Pi is used as a constant and can be rounded to 3.14, hence March 14 is Pi Day!
In school, we always celebrated by eating pie of course and having pi competitions.
If you're not a math person this probably won't make sense, but pi is an irrational number which means its value is not exactly even. This means that the decimals go on forever! So having a pi competition means seeing who can memorize the most decimals of pi. It's really tricky but I know it starts like this...
3.14159265
Here's a video of a 6th grader who memorized 251 decimals!
Pi is used as a constant and can be rounded to 3.14, hence March 14 is Pi Day!
In school, we always celebrated by eating pie of course and having pi competitions.
If you're not a math person this probably won't make sense, but pi is an irrational number which means its value is not exactly even. This means that the decimals go on forever! So having a pi competition means seeing who can memorize the most decimals of pi. It's really tricky but I know it starts like this...
3.14159265
Here's a video of a 6th grader who memorized 251 decimals!
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