Pi Day!

Pi Day is March 14 (because 3.14....get it?!!!). This year's Pi Day is for the record books:

If you look at the date and time to have an ultimate Pi Day celebration, it lines up perfectly with the first 10 digits of Pi!

I've found some activities you can use in class (and you don't have to be a math teacher):

• TED-Ed video lesson: Mile of Pi
• NEA Math Resources
• Edutopia Classroom Resources
• Educannon Bulb

Mensa Foundation Educational Programs has some interesting cross-disciplinary resources:

• Pi Template
• Easy Pi Day Cupcakes Recipe
• Making Pi a Law (Pseudo Bill)
• Make Music Out of Pi
• Poetry and other Writing Activities using the TP-CASTT method to analyze

Excerpt of the Poem "Pi" by Wislawa Szymborska

The admirable number pi:

three point one four one.

All the following digits are also just a start,

five nine two because it never ends.

It can't be grasped, six five three five, at a glance,

eight nine, by calculation,

seven nine, through imagination,

or even tree two three eight in jest, or by comparison

four six to anything

two six four three in the world.

SAT Prep: Answers Imagined

Answers Imagined provides an entertaining and informative visual in addition to enhance SAT practice. The site also applies both math and English through passage-based reading, identifying sentence errors in writing, and multiple choice math problems.

Through an interactive model, students not only attempt the correct response to the question but are also provided a video walk-through that deduces, explains, and defends the correct response. It is a true think-aloud and a great support for all learners.

Answers Imagined is great for both independent practice and bell-ringers. You can locate the link here: http://sat.collegeboard.org/practice/answers-imagined#aiAnimTop or through College Board.

I have condensed the information into one resource at: http://apsaunders.wikispaces.com/SAT+Practice

Enjoy!

~Kathy Saunders, AHS English Teacher

(A note from Chandra:  Don't forget to check out the SAT Words Animoto videos that students in Kathy's AP English Literature class produces every week.  A link can be found in Monday Musings.)