Pi Day, 3.14

Pi Day

Today is Pi Day!! Yeah! And it's not to late to celebrate with a piece of pie, either pizza pie, or your favorite dessert pie. Just remember to calculate the area of the pie before you eat it (by using pi )and then you will know how many square inches of pie you ate, if you ate a whole pie that is.

For Pi Day fun, check out the Official Pi Day Website which has a Pi Day Shop, where you can buy Pi Day t-shirts and a clock in terms of pi, has a link to make and send Pi Day ecards to your friends, and even a link to watch Pi Day raps on You Tube. I have to say, I didn't watch the nine minute one. Hello! Nine minutes of pi rap!? Really?

Another place for Pi Day fun is The Pi-Search Page. The Pi Search Page has 200 million digits of pi, and will search for your preferred sequence of numbers so you can see where in pi they are. For example, today's date 03-14-2009 came up with these results: "The string 03142009 occurs at position 78,157,637 counting from the first digit after the decimal point. The 3. is not counted." So, with this resource, for some one's birthday, you can send them a card telling them where their birthday occurs in pi! And you know they will think you are the coolest person on the planet!

Anyway, have a very happy Pi Day everyone, and if you want to check out my previous Pi Day posts, look here, here, and here.

Pi Day, 3-14

Pi Day

It's another Pi Day! The day devoted to eating pie and celebrating pi! Because, really, if we didn't have pi, we wouldn't understand, well, lots of things about our natural world. And, by the way, it's also Albert Einstein's birthday today, which is kinda cool. So, you can celebrate with a birthday pie, or you can calculate the perfect slice of birthday cake by using pi.

So, if you feel like you already know enough about the history of pi, or you have already memorized pi to the millionth digit, or that you have read enough pi limericks and pi haiku on past pi days, then you can check out these posters that help you calculate the area of your pizza pie, or you can calculate your age with pi, or you can find the bianary equivilant of your name in pi, all of which are cool Pi Day activities.

3.14 or Pi Day! , March 14th

Pi Day!

Oh my gosh! I almost forgot about Pi Day! Thank goodness that Soccer Dad reminded me or we might have gone all day without recognizing the wonderfulness that is Pi! If you want to go all out, hold your celebration at 1:59 pm, which will mean that you are recognizing the six-digit approximation of Pi: 3.14159.

If you want to send an ecard to someone to share the joy of Pi day, you can check out this site, and this site, and this site.

If you are looking for a book to read about dragons and Pi, I would recommend, Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi: A Math Adventure .

Wikihow has quite a detailed page about how to celebrate Pi Day, including a link for How to Write an Ode About Math.

If those things don't help you in your search for how to celebrate Pi Day, this site has a lot of links to Pi things. And if you check out this site, and take a survey, you could win a free Pi t-shirt.

And you could always check out last year's Pi Day post. Last year was probably a better post. It has Pi in binary and some other fun links about Pi.

Or just read some Pi poetry, that should make your day great!

National Pi Day (3.14- get it?) Learn About Butterflies Day, March 14th

National Pi Day

Today is the day to celebrate Pi... no, not that pie.

To celebrate Pi Day you can look up the location of your birthday in Pi, sing Pi Day songs, or play Pi Trivia.

Wikipedia, says that we should "eat pi (pie), play pi (piñata), drink pi (Piña Colada), eat pi (Pineapple) or watch Pi (film)." And we should save our major celebration until 1:59 pm, to recognize the six-digit approximation of Pi: 3.14159.

Fun Pi Facts

-Pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.

-March 14th is also Albert Einstein's birthday! (Coincidence? I think not.)

-Pi in Binary looks like this: 11. 00100100 00111111 01101010 10001000 10000101 10100011 00001000 11010011 00010011 00011001 10001010 00101110 00000011 01110000 01110011 01000100 10100100 00001001 00111000 00100010 00101001 10011111 00110001 11010000 00001000 00101110 11111010 10011000 11101100 01001110 01101100 10001001


Learn About Butterflies Day

If celebrating Pi is a little too analytical and systematized, then you should try something more natural and holistic, and learn more about butterflies today.

Butterfly Facts

- The word butterfly came from the English word Buttorfleoge.

- The collective name for a group of Butterflies is a flutter.

-Butterflies don't have lungs, they breath through openings in their abdomen called "spiracles".

-There are nearly 18,000 species of butterflies.

-Butterflies taste with their feet.

-Butterflies can attain a flight speed of up to 50 kph.

-When it rains butterflies find shelter in dense undergrowth and tree cavities.

-Some male butterflies emit pheromones through special scales on their wings.

-The average lifespan for an adult butterfly is just 20 to 40 days; the minimum lifespan of a butterfly is as little as three or four days; and the maximum lifespan of a butterfly is six months.