Pi Day

Grades: Elementary and Middle School

Objective: To learn more about pi through a series of hands-on activities

Today we:

-measured the circumference and diameter of a number of different circles around the room, recorded them on the chart, and then divided the circumference by diameter to see how close to "pi" the answer was
-watched "The Infinite Life of Pi" (from TED education)
-created a chain of colored strips of paper, with each color representing a digit in order to visualize the first couple dozen digits of pi