Pi Day

[Macabre]

I'm still trying to figure out how to turn 3.14 into 504.

Or something like that.   

It just deserved quoting.

[maeve]

For Pi day, DD's MS student activity club is selling tickets for students to throw pies at teachers. $1 buys you a throw from 10 feet and $5 buys you a throw from 5 feet.  It's been done in one of the courtyards.  It should be fun because it's very windy today and is about 20 degrees colder than it was yesterday (without the windchill).

[twinturbo]

According to a tweet from my local science museum we have a physicist named Larry Shaw to thank for this pie/pi celebration in 1988. How true that is... *shrug*.

[CMdeux]

Pi(e) day shouldn't even BE on March 14, according to my DD.

It doesn't correspond to a date on the calendar much at all, and if it does, it'd be August 5th.

That not being a "school" day in most places really puts a damper on the food associations, though.  So here we are.

STUPIDLY teaching students that Pi is spelled with an e at the end.

Pi day could be March 14.  But then you can't have Pie.  Because that is (3.14)(e), and e =/= 1.  So not only are schools introducing food where it doesn't belong, they are actually promoting math illiteracy while they go about it.

Niiiice.

~CM and Sky

[SkyScorcher]

The Pi Song

You see?  It is MOST definitely not spelled with an "e."

DENIED. 

[Macabre]

I have a statement to make which brings the lovely picture ajas posted--the one with the sprinkles--more relevant.

π is never ever actually pronounced "pie" by readers of Greek. Greek was my minor. Ive never heard a Greek scholar pronounce it Pie. It is pronounced:


PEE


So, I ask:  how should we be celebrating Π day at school?  Hmmm?

[maeve]

I have a statement to make which brings the lovely picture ajas posted--the one with the sprinkles--more relevant.

π is never ever actually pronounced "pie" by readers of Greek. Greek was my minor. Ive never heard a Greek scholar pronounce it Pie. It is pronounced:


PEE


So, I ask:  how should we be celebrating Π day at school?  Hmmm?

That's how the French would pronounce it too.  The I has an E sound in France. 

[Macabre]

But it's a Greek letter. So if we're going to celebrate it, we should do so based on the proper pronunciation.

[SkyScorcher]

Indeed.


Who wants a slice?   

[twinturbo]

pie anagram = epi

[ajasfolks2]

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[ajasfolks2]

Somebody clever here (ahem) needs to have fun editing/photoshopping this for our use: