Thanks
for a great Pi Day 2008!
The 20th Anniversary of the First Pi Day!
Welcome to TeachPi.org, where our goal is to become the first and best place on the Web for teachers who want to find or share ideas for
Pi Day activities, learning, and entertainment. We believe that promoting an enthusiasm for learning, through celebration and creativity, will lead only to a richer classroom environment and a deeper appreciation of mathematics.
Besides being a center for teaching ideas and resources, we’ll try to be your first stop for funny, smart, tongue-in-cheek tributes to the number pi. Our original gangsta rap, “Lose Yourself (In The Digits),” a parody of the well-known Eminem
hit, has been performed live in front of hundreds of students, and made its 2006 debut in classrooms around the world as a free, downloadable mp3 file. We will continue to create our own content, and try to direct you via links to the best Pi Day creations on the Web.
Finally, we believe that mathematics classes are far too often isolated from other subjects, whereas courses like English and History often overlap and interact. To this end, we will strive to produce interdisciplinary content, both in stories and activities, for use either inside a math classroom, or as a way to invite other teachers to share in a school-wide Pi Day celebration.
Make sure to check in with us each year as Pi Day approaches, or any time you're teaching about pi, to see what fun and useful things we might have in store for you. Thanks for visiting TeachPi.org, and please, write us and tell us what you’d like to see here. Pi is our favorite number, and together let’s make this pi’s favorite Web site.
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Sources
We've drawn upon many sources in creating the content found here at TeachPi.org, including print reference books, media articles, and information found on the Web. For a list of these sources, click here.
Thanks, and Happy Pi Day!