Celebrating International Pi Day

Pupils celebrated this year's International Pi Day in the Maths department during lunchtime. 

To commemorate the occasion, pupils held a 'Pi cake' competition and took part in a challenge to see how much of Pi they could remember. Well done to Sixth Former Joel who successfully recited Pi to an impressive 188 digits! All the worthy winners received special golden calculators.

Additionally, sales from the cake competition raised over £100 for the charity National Numeracy, which aims to empower everyone in the UK to have the numeracy skills that allow them to fulfill their potential​ at work, home and school.

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About International Pi Day

Pi (often represented by the lower-case Greek letter π), one of the most well-known mathematical constants, is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, for any circle, the distance around the edge is a little more than three times the distance across. Typing π into a calculator and pressing ENTER will yield the result 3.141592654, not because this value is exact, but because a calculator’s display is often limited to 10 digits.  Pi is actually an irrational number (a decimal with no end and no repeating pattern) that is most often approximated with the decimal 3.14. Therefore, International Pi Day takes place on 14 March each year, as the date (in American format) is 3.14.