Pi Day Ideas and Resources
Help your students celebrate Pi Day, 3/14, while engaging them in rich problem-solving and explorations. Here is a list of our favorite resources and ideas for K–12 students.
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If you need something to invigorate your tried-and-true Pi Day traditions, NCTM has you covered! Here is NCTM's collection of K -12 ideas for Pi Day.
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Find things that are about 3 times larger or smaller than a benchmark (e.g., the length of your finger, your height, the length of your foot, the weight of a book, the area of a sheet of paper.)
- Challenge students to measure the diameter and the circumference of circles. Here is a TIMS Project lesson: Diameter vs Circumference. Represent the data in a table and a graph and describe the relationship between the two variables.