{"id":1465,"date":"2024-11-05T04:05:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T11:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teachpi.org\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2024-11-07T01:39:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T08:39:04","slug":"https-dev-ecodinghub-in-teachpi-stories-pi-on-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/1\/https-dev-ecodinghub-in-teachpi-music-lovesong\/https-dev-ecodinghub-in-teachpi-stories-pi-on-the-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"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?\u00a0Learn more."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160308175510mp_\/http:\/\/www.teachpi.org\/stories\/pi-on-the-brain\/\">Learn more<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Pals in Pi,<\/p>\n<p>Happy Monday!\u00a0 In the good old days, I would always root for Pi Day to fall on a weekday.\u00a0 The glow of the holiday shines brightest when teachers and students are together at school on the actual 3\/14 and the raucous revelry is uninhibited.<\/p>\n<p>And so perhaps it&#8217;s fitting that the last two Pi Days have fallen on a Saturday and a Sunday.\u00a0 For many of us, they&#8217;ve landed as silently as a leaf drifting down to a snowy forest floor.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve had much bigger things on our minds and hearts over the past two years, dating back, for many parts of the U.S., to a new way of life that began very suddenly on none other than March 14, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Call it a Pi-atus, or a verrry long weekend, or whatever you like.\u00a0 It&#8217;s Monday, kids are back at school, and Pi Day is ready to play!<\/p>\n<p>So, just like any other activity that we&#8217;ve set aside for the\u00a0last couple years, we&#8217;re going to have to warm up our mathematical muscles before we can sprint again.\u00a0 Let this year&#8217;s Pi Day be part of that rediscovery and renewal, reminding all of us how great it feels to share something silly again.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Monday&#8230; so get out there and celebrate! :-)<\/p>\n<p>Luke<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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?\u00a0Learn more. Pals in Pi, Happy Monday!\u00a0 In the good old days, I would always root for Pi Day to fall on a weekday.\u00a0 The glow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"layerslider-blank","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,1,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banner-image","category-https-dev-ecodinghub-in-teachpi-music-lovesong","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3538,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions\/3538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.ecodinghub.in\/teachpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}