Did somebody say pie?! Well not that kind of pie… get ready to dig into the Mathematics of STEM with this hands-on activity to prove the constant Pi.
Students measure the circumference and diameter of circular objects.
Students measure the diameter and circumference of various circular objects, plot the measurements on a graph, and relate the slope of the line to π, the ratio of circumference to diameter.
Pi Day (3/14) approaches. To help honor the coming holiday and the importance of math, stand-up mathematician Matt Parker unspools a common math mistake known as the off-by-one-error.