These last few weeks have been quite hectic at school so I'm just getting around to writing a post about our Pi Day celebrations from March 14th! All of my middle school students are fascinated by the value of pi and the fact that it goes on and on forever and never repeats (even those who aren't studying pi yet!). So March 14th - Pi Day - is quite an exciting day in my classroom.
This is their favorite poster in my room! If you look very carefully, it lists as many digits that can fit on the poster in the background.
We started the day by having two of the eighth graders read a chant over the intercom during announcements to let the school know that today we are celebrating Pi Day.
A copy of the chant read during announcements.
And then begins the fun Pi Day activity! I found on Pinterest last year a great idea for making Pi Day Bracelets. You buy 10 different color beads and assign each color a digit. As the students go through the digits of pi, they use the corresponding color bead to put together a bracelet. Even though my 7th and 8th graders made bracelets last year, they were still very exciting to make bracelets again this year - in fact, they asked if we were doing it again this year! The 8th graders made their bracelets on their own, but the 7th graders helped the 1st graders make bracelets before making their own. It was great to see the 7th graders work with the younger students and explain to them why pi was such an important numerical value. The 6th graders worked with the 4th and 5th graders and made bracelets with them. Again, it was great to see my students working with students from a different grade level.
Here is my Pi Day Bracelet. We used initial beads to represent the decimal point.
Here are some of the color-number match ups that students used to make their bracelets:
3 = red
1 = orange
4 = green
5 = purple
Overall, we had a great Pi Day and the kids loved it! I love being able to celebrate math in a fun way with my students.
No comments:
Post a Comment