Our Classs PI Day Activity

We began with reading a picture book titled Sir Cumference and the First Round Table, a math
adventure. I then gave the students a presentation about pi. We followed that up with a
scavenger hunt around the school. I had posted these nine questions around the school:

1. I am the Greek letter representing this constant.
2. I am credited for popularizing the use of this Greek letter to represent the
circle constant.
3. Round and round a circle I go. What am I?
4. I pass through the centre of a circle, and my two ends touch the circle. What
am I?
5. I am pi. What ratio do I represent?
6. Meet 3.14159...Some say hes crazy, some say hes zany. He is neither. He
is a(n) number.
7. Name two ancient civilizations known to have found an approximation of the
value of pi.
8. Which fraction is closest to the actual value of PI? A) 337/120 B) 22/7 C)
355/113
9. Carefully wrap yarn around the outer edge of this circular table. Cut the yarn
when it goes around the table exactly once. Now take your cut yarn and stretch it
across the middle of the table from one end of the table to the other. Cut as many
pieces as you can that go across. How many pieces did you cut to go across the
middle?

Students were split into teams of four. I took from 20-30 minutes for all teams to finish their hunt with the
correct answers. We wrapped up Pi Day with reading the next picture book in the series, titled Sir
Cumference and the Dragon of Pi.