Celebrated every year on 14 March – our American cousins notate this as 3/14, which hopefully goes someway to explaining why it’s celebrated then – Pi Day is just round the corner, and plans are afoot in the maths department to celebrate its arrival.
There are two strands to this.
First, there’s the Pi Recital event. Students are invited to M1 at lunchtime on Friday 13 March where they can write down as many digits of Pi, in sequential order, as they can remember. Legend has it the school record is over 100 characters which itself is mind boggling. Whisper it, there may be prizes. They could include Galaxy Counters, but this is subject to change!
In addition there’s the house competition, where students are challenged to represent Pi in a “creative way”. The deadline for submissions for this is tutor time on the aforementioned Friday. They should let their imagination fly.
We encourage all students to take part in these initiatives in recognition of this mysterious and magical number.
