Next Wednesday, March 14th, is a special Math day. It is Pi (3.1415…) Day
We will be learning about Pi and engaging ourselves in many Pi Day activities.
You may want to memorize these fun facts!!
- Pi is used to calculate the area and circumference of a circle
- Albert Einstein was born in Germany on March 14, 1879
- Ancient Greek Mathematician, Archimedes, was one of the first scholars to calculate pi
- Einstein wrote his first scientific paper when he was 16 years old
- The last digit of pi cannot be calculated
- Einstein received the Nobel Prize in 1921
- Pi has been calculated to 22 trillion digits so far
- Einstein’s brain was stolen after his death
- The number one (1) occurs in the first 100,000 digits of pi a total of 10, 137 times
You want to memorize as many digits in Pi as possible! If you get the farthest in your class, you get a really cool prize!!