Somebody clever here (ahem) needs to have fun editing/photoshopping this for our use:

pie anagram = epi

But it's a Greek letter. So if we're going to celebrate it, we should do so based on the proper pronunciation.

I have a statement to make which brings the lovely picture ajas posted--the one with the sprinkles--more relevant.

π is never ever actually pronounced "pie" by readers of Greek. Greek was my minor. Ive never heard a Greek scholar pronounce it Pie. It is pronounced:


PEE


So, I ask:  how should we be celebrating Π day at school?  Hmmm?

Pi(e) day shouldn't even BE on March 14, according to my DD.

It doesn't correspond to a date on the calendar much at all, and if it does, it'd be August 5th.

That not being a "school" day in most places really puts a damper on the food associations, though.  So here we are.

STUPIDLY teaching students that Pi is spelled with an e at the end.

Pi day could be March 14.  But then you can't have Pie.  Because that is (3.14)(e), and e =/= 1.  So not only are schools introducing food where it doesn't belong, they are actually promoting math illiteracy while they go about it.

Niiiice.

~CM and Sky

For Pi day, DD's MS student activity club is selling tickets for students to throw pies at teachers. $1 buys you a throw from 10 feet and $5 buys you a throw from 5 feet.  It's been done in one of the courtyards.  It should be fun because it's very windy today and is about 20 degrees colder than it was yesterday (without the windchill).

Seriously, my high school science teacher would have had a fit about eating anything in the classroom.  It just was not done in the lab.  Not safe.

But we still did a decent amount of really cool projects, none of which involved food.  Made hot air balloons, vinegar and baking soda boats made from soda bottles, and we always had a competition of who could sculpt the best mole out of a mole of aluminum foil on mole day.  We did a lot of cool experiments too, which very rarely involved food, and when they did, it was never eaten.





Of course, I think that my science teacher was amazing in most ways.  I went to a tiny school, and she taught seven different classes a day, from 7th grade science through all of the high school classes.  She taught so many science classes that we had to offer physics and chemistry in alternating years because there wasn't enough time in her day to do both.

CMdeux,
I'm pretty sure now that you and your daughter might need to be bailed out of some jail somewhere overseas pretty soon.  Make sure you take our numbers with you, LOL!