“We are decorating all math teacher doors pi themed with pictures of pi and the number pi.” This is what 12th grade Mu Alpha Theta member Ashley Machie said about Mu Alpha Theta’s plans to celebrate March 14th (Pi day).
Pi Day is an annual celebration that dates back to 1988. It honors the mathematical constant π (pi). The creator, Larry Shaw, who worked as a physicist at the San Francisco Exploratorium, saw the symbol’s relationship to circles and that the spelling of pi was close to “pie;” as a result we celebrate 3/14 with, you guessed it, pie.
“We are decorating math teacher doors and we are playing a math game, so we are bringing in pies,” said Chloe Kamps 12th, grade.
There are a lot of doors for these students to decorate so Mu Alpha Theta members are celebrating a day in advanced and will decorate the doors later throughout Thursday. Members also had to find the relevance behind mathematics and pi.
“Because it’s (Pi day) Thursday, we are having a pre-pi day celebration Wednesday,” The students researched interesting math facts about pi, or just the history of mathematics,” said calculus teacher and head of Mu Alpha Theta, Ms. Simmons.
“Pi day is kind of low scale this year because we couldn’t get activity request forms in on time,” said Ms. Simmons. This is the reason why there isn’t much commotion about the festivity this year at OHS.
