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Pi Day Post: Yummy and Informative
Pie. Pi. Pie. Whether you eat it or calculate it, Pi Day remains a fun Pseudo-holiday for students and educators alike!
If you are involved with schools or mathematics at all, you know that today is Pi day. Pi is a number that never ends and for some odd reason, many kids like to memorize as many numbers as they can. Pi Day is celebrated on 3/14 (today) representing the first three numbers of this irrational number (3.14……).
My boys, who always liked mathematics and did well in the subject, could never really be bothered with memorization. However, I do remember my youngest tying in a school-wide competition with another student during his elementary days for being able to recite the most numbers. I think he was in 3rd or 4th grade.
After that, he just did not want to bother — I think he came to realize there was not much point in just memorizing the numbers, one had to know more about how the number is derived and applied. He has a great memory (some of his teachers have thought it to be photographic), so the memorization wasn’t even much work for him.
