Comments on: Happy National Pi Day!

By: Joey

Joey — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:27:28 +0000

I had no idea there even was a pi day up until I read this blog. That is pretty cool to say the least. I’ll have to mark it in my calendar. I have always been a true fan of math and especially geometry so pi day is important. Thanks for sharing.

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 23 May 2009 23:06:22 +0000

As a Middle-School math teacher, I often hear my students complaining about how boring math is. So, I’m always looking for new strategies to make my class more interesting and meaningful to them. I happily used National Pi Day to celebrate math, have a math-party and make math more exciting to them. Honestly, I don’t care about the actual date, I’m just glad there is some sort of Holiday that celebrates math. We could make January National Polyhedron Month and I’d celebrate it.

By: Dan Howitt

Dan Howitt — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:56:29 +0000

Happi PI day, Dan Howitt New York.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:18:01 +0000

To get away from the mm/dd versus dd/mm problem we could celebrate on 21st December at 1:13am. 21st December is the 355th day of the year and the fraction 355/113 (=3.1415929…) is a pretty good approximation for pi. It would be celebrated on 20th December on leap years.

By: Kandi

Kandi — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:58:19 +0000

I agree that our government taking 40 minutes to debate this issue is a little unbelievable, although, I suppose we all have our things that we are passionate about and who’s to say that our government should only listen to certain people’s views. As far as the importance of math and science in our society, I believe that it is important to continue to encourage this to the world. So I guess we will have a national pi day, knowing that not everyone is going to celebrate it the same way .

By: Alexandros

Alexandros — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:30:40 +0000

Is any celebration the 2/7 too? (Or, better, the 27th January?)

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:50:55 +0000

Rohedi, pi is an irrational number. As such, it has an infinite amount of digits and cannot be expressed as a fraction.

By: Rohedi

Rohedi — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:45:42 +0000

I’ve just known that 22/7 is only approximation for pi value. And after browsing on the internet, oh my God, more than 2.5 thousand the exact value of pi has not yet known. I think there are miss thinking for finding it, so we must move to another definition of the pi number.

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:15:49 +0000

Guys, it’s all in good fun. The main point of the resolution wasn’t about the exactness of the day when approximating Pi, the resolution was meant to highlight the importance of math and science and to promote them in classrooms around the country (and world). If you consider this trivial, you should check out some of the other bills discussed. You’ll be in for a real surprise.

By: Ken Williams

Ken Williams — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:00:49 +0000

I noticed that they debated the bill for 40 minutes – what did they talk about, I wonder?