Celebrating Pi Day 3.14

Pi Day T-Shirts

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What to Eat at a Pi Day Party?

Pi Day Foods and Snacks

• Pie!
  Any pie will do, but if you can put the symbol pi into the crust of say an apple or cherry pi it is even more festive.
• Pizza!
  A pizza pie is a great add to a Pi Day party. To go all out, put pepperoni on in the shape of pi.
• Cookies or cupcakes decorated with Pi are great ideas
• Coffee, pie and donuts
  A mnemonic for C = pi*d is Coffee Pie Donuts
• Anything else round - It would be best to have all of your refreshments be round to keep the theme going. Donuts, cheerios, M&Ms, ...

More Pi Day Activity Ideas

Things to Do for Pi Day

• Make a paper chain out of 10 different colored papers. Choose one color to correspond with each digit, and see how long you can make it.
• Pi Rhythm - Assign each of 10 students a digit. Have the digits of pi visible to everyone. Have students pat there legs in a steady rhythm. Have the students call out their digit when it comes up in the rhythm. Whenever a student messes up, they get "dinged". The person with the least "dings" after a set amount of time wins.
• Compose pi nursery rhymes.

Pi Quotes

• "Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important." -- Lisa Hoffman
• "Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals" --Henry Spencer
• "So here we have pi squared, which an engineer would call 10." --Frank King
• "It helps us understand what pi is, not just food." --Robert Toth
• "Pi is not merely the ubiquitous factor in high school geometry problems; it is stitched across the whole tapestry of mathematics, not just geometry's little corner of it. Pi occupies a key place in trigonometry too. It is intimately related to e, and to imaginary numbers. Pi even shows up in the mathematics of probability." --Robert Kanigel
• "Exploring pi is like exploring the universe" -David Chudnovsky
• "Pi is not just a collection of random digits. Pi is a journey; an experience; unless you try to see the natural poetry that exists in pi, you will find it very difficult to learn" --Antranig Basman
• More Pi Quotes

Why pi is cooler than e:

Debate points for pi

• the value of pi is bigger
• pi is so special, it only shows under "special symbols" in word processor programs.
• People confuse Euler's Number (e) with Euler's Constant (gamma). There is no confusion with the one and only pi
• e is named after a person, but pi stands for itself
• pi cannot be confused with a hallucinogenic drug
• pi is tasty
• Pi Day rocks! No one cares about e Day.

Why e is cooler than pi:

Debate points for e

• e is easier to spell than pi
• e is on a keyboard, but pi is not
• ln(pi) is a ugly, but ln(e) is 1.
• e is used in calculus while pi is used in baby geometry
• 'e' is the most commonly picked vowel in Wheel of Fortune.
• You don't need to know Greek to be able to use e
• You can't confuse e with a dessert

Celebrate Pi Day By Doing What You Love

But Pi Oriented

• If you love music, play Pi on a piano or instrument of your choice.
• If you love photography, take your camera to the streets and photograph numbers on buildings and signs in your town and then line them up to Pi. Take single digits, and also try to get some photos of strings of numbers. Then create a display of your photos. Check out this great example: Pi Day to the 36th digit.
• If you love sports, find photos of athletes wearing their numbered jersey's and line them up to represent Pi. Babe Ruth wore #3. That's a great place to start. Then choose an athlete that wore 1 or 14 and continue for the first however many digits of pi you wish to display.
• If you like making movies, create a stop action animation using anything...sand, legos, pencils, soda cans, people, anything.
• If you like acting, write a Pi Day skit and perform it.
• If you like writing, write a Pi poem, or create a false newspaper that includes fake Pi related stories (complete with ads, classifieds, and obituaries).
• If you like cooking, bake a Pi Pie. Another food idea is to use a serving dish shaped like a cylinder, half sphere, or even a cone, and prepare something in it, and display the calculations for the volume of that item. For instance, if you make a trifle in a trifle bowl (which is nearly a cylinder), you can calculate volume with this equation.

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