Happy Pi Day II

[Feature photo above by pauladamsmith.]

Now there is an ancient Greek letter,
And I think no other is better.
It isn’t too tall,
It might look very small,
But its digits, they go on forever.

— Scott
Mrs. Mitchell’s Virtual School

Time to Celebrate

Are your students doing anything special for Day? After two months with no significant break, we are going stir crazy. We need a day off — and what better way could we spend it than to play math all afternoon?

If you need ideas, here are some great pages:

• Printable Pi Day Sudoku
  And another, and another, because with Sudoku, you can’t do just one! And here’s yet one more.
• Pi Day at Mrs. Burke’s Math Page
• Visualizing Pi
  An informative Pi Day infographic.

Since is eternal, last year’s links are not obsolete. So don’t miss the infamous hot-dog toss, how to find your birthday in the digits of , and more:

• Happy Pi Day I

History of Pi

• A Brief History of
• Things that equal Pi
• The “Jewish” or “Bible” value of pi
  Does the Torah really say that = 3?
• MacTutor’s History of Pi
  Follow the adventures of from II Chronicles 4 to 20th century Germany, including the still-open question: Is “normal”?
• How Pi Was Almost Equal to Three in Indiana

Would You Call It Pi-etry?

Who knew mathematicians could be so literary?

• Poetry for Pi Day
• A Challenge for Pi Day: Write Your Own Pi-ku
• Circle Digits — A Self-Referential Story
• Poe, E.: Near a Raven

Pi in Your Face

• Pi jokes
• The Pizza Theorem
  What is the volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z?

Mathematical Pi Song

And here is Chickenfoot’s favorite YouTube song about :

[If the embedded version doesn’t work, click here.]

Personally, I prefer Professor Lesser’s lyrics:

• American Pi

And Finally…

For those who hate to join a bandwagon, here is the curmudgeon’s view:

• The Irrationality of Pi Day

And check out the alternative holiday for pi’s rival:

• Happy Tau Day

[Hat tip: I found several of these links through Mathmom’s post and the comments that followed.]