Pi Day Encourages a Love of Math

"Mathletes" around the world celebrate Pi Day to encourage a love of math learning. Our Brandeis mathletes took part in Pi Day festivities on Tuesday, with middle schoolers visiting lower school classes and leading the students in a few Pi Day-related activities. With the younger students, middle schoolers helped teach students how to write the Greek letter pi, decorated circular plates, and read the book Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi. Upper lower school students engaged in stations with the middle schoolers which involved more complex understandings of pi, including measuring the circumference and diameter of various circular objects and determining how close to pi they could get. At the conclusion of all of the activities, students consumed circular goodies: mini doughnuts!

 

“One of the reasons why I like to have an all-school Pi Day is to start the students' love of learning all things math early,” says Ali Frank, math program chair. “Math is ubiquitous—we actually use math every day—and it’s important to us as math educators to show our students how and why math is so important!”

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