14 February is Valentine’s Day. Celebrating LOVE is the theme of the day.
14 March is Pi day, which implies the day to celebrate Pi. How do we do that? It is known to be a fun day which includes from the eating of pies to investigating the constant. It is an opportunity to gain some insight and understanding of the constant pi. Special pi greetings are sent to friends and acquaintances on this day.
What benefits are there for our learners to be part of such celebrations? Should we be encouraging our schools, educators and learners to be part of this global mathematics community in celebrating pi-day?
"Probably no symbol in mathematics has evoked as much mystery, romanticism, misconception and human interest as the number pi ( )."
--William L. Schaaf, Nature and History of Pi
--William L. Schaaf, Nature and History of Pi
4 comments:
I hope Pi day encourages a hunger for mathemtics as you desire. I hope it helps everyone to realize that mathematics is not only the domain of flaky, pastry faced nerds but a valuable component of education. I hope it promotes partnership between learners and maths like steak and kidney. The challenges in education are peppered with high stakes and we cannot afford to be so chicken and allow these to mushroom into seemly insurmountable problems. I hope that the whole celebration on the day doesn't prompt any cornish comments from calorie watching oponents who would prefer to nibble on the side salads of important issues in education instead of digesting the wholesome, tasty, mouthwatering world of mathematics. May they be forced to eat humble pi.
I think it is important to make everybody more aware of mathematics so yes, let’s start a pi/pie day and assist schools with fundraising events to finance technology.
Go for a pie day, or any other day that could help learners getting a better insight into mathematics.
I like the video clip (both the specific clip, as well as the idea of using this medium). Do continue to use them in your blog postings. It will be a happy day when our teachers will copy this practice.
Great idea. Have fun with maths. It's is a day of innovation, since people all over the world will try to do something mathematical or even non-mathematical with pi.
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