Birches Elementary School in Washington Township helped celebrate Pi Day on March 14, with a number activities. The celebration actually kicked off on March 1, as the school began a food drive to benefit Mother’s Cupboard. Fifth-graders were challenged to collect – as a whole – 314 cans (or more) as a representation of pi. Pi is a mathematical calculation to determine the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter and is widely known to be rounded down to 3.14. By Pi Day (March 14, or 3/14), the fifth-graders actually collected 387 cans.
In addition, on Pi Day, the students took part in other pi-related activities, such as: creating number sentences so each model equaled 3.14; making Pi Day greeting cards; finding the circumference of a hula hoop followed with a contest to find the best hula hooper; and listening to the story Sir Circumference and the First Round Table. At the end of the day, some of the fifth-graders stacked the cans of food to spell out 3.14.