Animated Lessons
Pi Day
Celebrate Pi Day with Fun Facts and Activities! - From EasyFunSchool.com. March 14th (3.14) is Pi Day! Make your plans now to celebrate math with Pi Day using some of these neat resources, books, and ideas. We have links to tons of websites with activity suggestions for all grades. We also have a list of books that you can read and follow up with notebooking pages or lapbooks. (Y, M, O, T)
Scholastic.com - March 14 Is Pi Day! - 14 Fun Math and Geometry Activities to Celebrate the Most Useful Irrational Number (M)
Pi Day Celebrations - From A to Z Teacher Stuff Forums (T)
Math, Media & Pi Day Converge as Kids Honor 3.14 - From Shaping Youth BETA BLOG. A forum about media and marketing's influence on kids. (O,T)
TeachPi.Org - A one stop Pi-day stop for teachers and number lovers. (M, O, T)
2009 21st Annual Pi Day Celebration page - Welcome to 21st celebration of Pi Day, an international "geek" holiday founded at the Exploratorium. Mathematical pi (π) and puns thereof are the toasts of the day. Go forth and immerse yourself in the quirky, ritualistic festivities and antics, lovingly prepared, from scratch, by Exploratorium staff and collaborators. This year's Pi Day is also Albert Einstein's 130th birthday. Happy Birthday, Al! (M, O, T)
Pi Poster - Pi is the irrational number which represents the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. This poster shows the pi symbol and the value of pi in decimal to many places. (Y, M, O, T)
About Pi - What is pi? Who first used pi? How do you find its value? What is it for? How many digits is it? From Ask Dr. Math. (M, O, T)
A history of Pi - (M, O, T)
Pi - From Jim Loy.com (M, O, T)
Pi to Million (1,000,000) digits. - (M, O, T)
Pi Notes - Pi set to music using Flash, (M, O, T)
Pi Day songs - These Pi Day songs were written by LaVern Christianson, when he was a math teacher at Windom Area High School, Windom, MN, USA, with some help from his colleagues. They have been sung by his classes, and by the classes of other math teachers in Windom for several years now. Since this site first appeared, we have recieved reports of many other teachers using them in thier classrooms, as well. We hope you enjoy. Sing heartily! (M, O, T)
Pi Day cards - (Y, M, O, T)
The Pi-Search Page - The Pi Searcher lets you search for any string of digits (up to 120 of them) in the first 200 million digits of Pi. You can also show any substring of Pi. (O, T)
What are you doing for pi day? - Proteacher.net discussions thread. (T)
Pi Day gives kids a lot to play with - The Pi string has more than 4,000 colored beads on it, each color representing a digit from 0 to 9, and added at the exact place in the progression of digits in Pi. The string is the creation of Exploratorium employee and Pi Day creator Larry Shaw. (M, O, T)
10 Minute Math - Have 10 minutes? Why not explore some math. (M, O, T)
Pi Limericks - (Y, M, O, T)
