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The Big One is Here – 3.14.15!

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Some are calling it the Pi Day of the century.  Others, more dramatically, have deemed it the only (true) Pi Day of our lives.  Whatever you call it, 3.14.15 is undeniably the biggest day in the modern history of math holidays.  Well, in our ten-fingered world, that is. (On that side note, this whole holiday […]

TeachPi.org’s New Look

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Welcome to the new and improved TeachPi.org! Like a much-loved teddy bear, the site has been a companion to many teachers and Pi lovers for several years now, but it had been stitched together (with love) in an earlier time, and was starting to show some signs of wear and tear. So, I decided that […]

Pi Day Chain GangsAll it takes is paper, tape, and a whole lot of determination. One color per digit! Can your school make the rankings?

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Hey, Pi People! Hope you’re all geared up for a great Pi Day 2019! As for me, my Pi Day celebration started nice and early. I was a special guest at what I would consider to be one of the two biggest Pi Day celebrations on the planet: Pi Day Princeton! (I was lucky enough […]

Pi Inspires Art Among the countless artistic tributes to pi, Michael Albert’s 777-digit handmade collage really stands out. Learn more.

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  Partners in Pi, This year’s Pi Day just feels right. After a few years of paused traditions, unspoken digits, and uneaten slices, Pi Day 2023 feels like a good old fashioned, typical Pi Day… and that’s a good thing! It falls on a Tuesday, which is a perfectly bland day in the school and […]

Pi on the Brain We all know that memorizing digits of pi is good brain exercise, but can it actually make us better at math? What does neuroscience tell us about all of this? Learn more.

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We all know that memorizing digits of pi is good brain exercise, but can it actually make us better at math? What does neuroscience tell us about all of this? Learn more. Pals in Pi, Happy Monday!  In the good old days, I would always root for Pi Day to fall on a weekday.  The glow […]

Miles of Pi?Want to be a part of Pi? Craft a digit on a fabric square, and send it to artist Sally Sellers. She stitched thousands together for 3.14.15, and is still at it. Learn more.

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Saturday, March 14, 2020 feels like a very long time ago.  As I’ve said before, some of my favorite Pi Days of all time have been on Saturdays, including, of course, 3.14.15, the Pi Day of the Century.  So I had naturally been looking forward to it, as I’m sure you were.  But alas, instead […]

The Pi Rap Lives OnIt’s been performed by Pi Diddy from coast to coast, and schools everywhere continue to crank it up each March 14th. Have you heard it yet?

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Hi friends, It’s usually a good thing when Pi Day falls on a Saturday. The last two times this has taken place were both momentous dates in our shared history of Pi: [list type=”check”] 2015:  March 14 fell on a Saturday in 2015, which, of course, marked the Pi Day of the Century (3.14.15).  I’ll […]