World Pi Day!
Happy World Pi Day!
14th March is known as World Pi Day.
On the Junior campus today, students across Years 7-10 engaged in learning activities involving Pi during their timetabled Maths lesson. The activities ranged from students completing a Jeopardy game covering a number of categories including Famous Mathematicians, Movies containing a mathematical theme and Pi facts. Other activities students engaged in were Trivia and Pixel Art. Students were able to discover their Pi super power. Follow the link to discover yours.
During lunchtime today we held our Inaugural Pi recital competition.
All of our competitors did an amazing job.
The first 300 digits of Pi are as follows:
π = 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944
592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647
093844609550582231725359408128481117450284102701938521105559
644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233786783165
27120190914564856692346034861045432664821339360726024914127
How many can you remember?
Teejay Pineda of Year 8 recited 55 digits of Pi, Richard Tannous of Year 10 recited 108 digits of Pi, Emily Bottomley of Year 8 recited 122 digits of Pi, and Jaanvi Sahni of Year 8 recited 200 digits of Pi.
Congratulations to Malaar Kaur of Year 8, who is the Inaugural winner of today’s recital. Malaar was able to recite 253 digits of Pi correctly.
Thank you to our judges, Mr Hazell, Mrs Kumar and Mrs Nguyen.
Thank you to all of the students who actively participated and engaged in our World Pi Day activities throughout the day. Thank you also to the Maths staff for facilitating these activities and dressing in the theme of Pi Day.
Looking forward to celebrating World Pi Day again next year.
Ms Tracey Thomson
Leader of Learning Mathematics