Pi Day is being celebrated on this Monday, the day when the number Pi is cherished with hotdog throwing, numerical recitations and desserts as well.
Pi number, the ratio of circle’s circumference to the diameter was for the very first time calculated in ancient times. The digits of the number are starting with 3.14159, having no endpoint. That’s why 14th of March or, in other words, 3/14 is the Pi Day.
Pi Day was for the first time celebrated in San Francisco Exploratorium in the year 1989.
The festivity has now spread throughout the whole world and mathematics students, teachers and other math fans who are amused and fascinated by the pi number celebrate the pi day.
In Morgan Park Academy, in view of Pi Day teachers will be focusing on Pi number in class as stated by James Kowalsky, mathematics team leader at Morgan Park. He stated that during his class of geometry in the past, he had his students cut down cardboard squares many times in order to get them fit in the circles, which helped students in calculating the circle area without the use of Pi.
For the Pi Day celebration in Walter Payton, students will be throwing hot dogs on the floor which will be marked with parallel lines having equal space. The reason behind this act is to convey that hot dog part crossing the line after falling is approximately one over Pi as explained by Paul Karafiol, chairman of Payton mathematics.
One important highlight of Pi Day is the recitation of different Pi digits which computers have computed to trillion decimal places. The record of Morgan Park is of 312 digits while someone recited 100+ digits at DuPage Science fiction society and a student at Payton remembered 500 digits.