Start Making Plans for Pi Day
March 12, 2012
Thank goodness for Pi Day! Finally, a non-traditional holiday that makes sense . . . and encourages math education to boot. March 14, otherwise known as 3/14, was proclaimed to be "Pi Day" since it shares digits in common with Pi (3.141592...), the important mathematical constant.
Pi, the Greek letter, is pictured above. Per Pi Day's official Web site, Pi is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
Pi Day was founded in 1988 by a physicist named Larry Shaw, and was initially celebrated at the San Francisco Exploratorium. The U.S. House of Representatives supported the designation of Pi Day in 2009.
Ways to celebrate Pi Day vary, but indulging in some fruit pie (as Shaw and company did at the very first Pi Day celebration) or a pizza pie is a great way to go. After all, dessert pies and pizza pies are (usually) circular, and Pi's application in figuring out the area of a circle.
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