30 Days of Science - Day 25

I'm still here!  I just got sick and behind and lost motivation to blog for a little while.  It's all good :)

Thanks to Keith I found out that today is Pi Day!  3.14... get it? 
It's also Albert Einstein's Birthday. 

Luke's teacher is Mrs. Pye so I wanted to do something fun for her.

I made some signs that said, Happy Pye Day, Pi=3.14, as well as signs that thanked her for being such a good teacher.

I wrote up the note below (click to make it bigger) and gave it to each kid so they could understand what Pi is and why we were celebrating.  Each kid got a big Pi sticker to put on their shirt and later today they'll get Oatmeal Cream Pies. 

I killed one tree and printed the first one MILLION digits of Pi for Mrs. Pye to show the kids. It's pretty interesting to see what a million numbers look like. The numbers printed at a font size of 8pt still took 124 pages to print!!

If you are asking what Pi has to do with science, read this quote from the Big Book of Sarcastic Science and think the opposite way :)

Pi deals with circles and the science world doesn't have circles, only squares and rectangles (just look at the Periodic table)! So, Pi isn't used in the Science world, because you don't need math to do science.