Happy Pi Day!
In this post are a bunch of Pi Day math activity ideas for celebrating 3/14 in your middle school math classroom. I also wanted to share some fun facts about pi and Pi Day that I have collected over the years. The list includes a link to a website where you can search the digits of pi for any string of numbers, including your phone number, birthdate or any other string of numbers you choose.
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| Pi Day mobile |
PI DAY FUN FACTS
1: It took 1,000 years to prove pi irrational.
2: The first people to refer to the ratio between the diameter and circumference of a circle were the Ancient Egyptians.
3: "I prefer pi" is a palindrome.
4: Albert Einstein was born on Pi Day, 1879.
5: 22/7 is sometimes used to estimate pi.
6: The first major Pi Day celebration was in 1988.
7: Pi has been calculated past the two-quadrillionth digit.
8: P and pi are both the 16th letters in their alphabets.
9: You can likely find your phone number in pi. Here's the site that searches for it: http://angio.net/pi/. I found mine!
10: And my favorite... 3.14 backwards is PIE!
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| Pi Day math pennant activity |
To celebrate Pi Day, I created a few printable Pi Day math activities that let students get a little artsy while not losing a day of learning. Above is a Pi Day math pennant activity with area and circumference problems and fun pi facts on each pennant. This one is geared towards middle school (8th grade) and high school.
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| Middle school Pi Day math pennant |
For students in middle school, there is this Pi Day math pennant for middle school with less challenging circle problems. When the pennants are solved and colored, they make a colorful, student-created classroom display.
This new pack of 16 Pi Day math worksheets includes puzzles, mazes, equations, circle problems and more.
This Pi Day mobile is a fun craft for any age. Here they are hanging in a 5th grade teacher's classroom.
The printable Pi Day math activities and Pi Day math worksheets above are bundled in this discounted Pi Day activities bundle:
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| Pi Day Activities Bundle |
If you're looking for something digital for Pi Day, here are a couple self-checking Pi Day digital math escape rooms built in Google Forms:
The Pi Day digital math escape room above is for students in middle school (8th grade) through high school geometry. Some questions ask students to solve for specific variables in the circle, sphere and cylinder formulas. Students solve the 4 problems in the puzzle, then type the correct code from the answer grid. The Form is answer-validated, so each puzzle will only unlock with the correct 4-letter code. There are 5 puzzles (20 questions) to solve.
For younger students in middle school, there is an Pi Day digital math escape room for middle school that only covers finding area and circumference. Above is puzzle #1.
HAPPY 𝝅 DAY!
The pi day activity #10 isn't "backwards" its a reflection about a veetical line. An even better math activity.
ReplyDeleteI like that! 314PIE
DeleteI just wish Pi Day didn't land on spring break every year.
ReplyDeleteAround here we get a February break and an April break...March is a long haul! Happy vacation Pi Day! :)
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