Liberty Park Middle celebrates Pi Day

Pi Day is celebrated worldwide on March 14. As part of this day, Liberty Park Middle School students in Brett Richards’ sixth grade math class participated in several activities.

Richards read aloud the book, Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi by Wayne Geehan. Students also discovered pi by finding the circumference of circular objects in the class and its diameter. They discovered that pi was derived from the ratio of circumference to diameter.

Students also tested Buffon’s Needles theory, using toothpicks instead of needles.

Finally, students had a competition to see who could memorize the most digits of Pi. At the end, students that won first place in each class threw a pie at Richards.

First place winners who threw pie were Eden Roberson - 81 digits, Riley McIntrye - 66 digits, Yuheon Lee - 59 digits and Kendall Tucker - 54 digits.