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last minute, no-prep

Pi Day
Activities
ideas so easy, you can do them as
soon as you read them!
 Last Minute, No-Prep
Pi Day Ideas
Count down to Pi Minute (New Year’s style, of course!) on 3-14 at 1:59.
(because 3.14159…) Celebrate with a song…
Sing “Happy Pi Day to You” to the tune of Happy Birthday. Then sing Happy
Birthday to Albert Einstein, who was born on March 14, 1879. (You can
search for Pi Day Songs on youtube.com for lots more ideas!)
Make copies of the included Pi or Pie? word search puzzle and see who can
find the most words.
Display 1000 Digits of Pi and play Pi Digits Scavenger Hunt. What strings of
digits can you find in Pi? Can you find your birthday? Your house number?
Your zip code? If you can’t find it in the first 1000 digits, you can check
www.mypiday.com or http://www.angio.net/pi/ to see where any string of
digits first occurs in Pi.
Have a Pi Day memorization contest. Make teams of 3-5 students. Display a
copy of 1000 Digits of Pi or give each group a copy. Set a timer for 5-10
minutes, then see which team can recite the most digits correctly in order.
Tell some pi jokes. What’s the official fruit of Pi Day? A pi-napple! What’s
the official mascot of Pi Day? A pi-rate! What do you call a snake that is 3.14
feet long? A pi-thon! Your students can probably think of many more!
Discover Pi! Measure the circumference and the diameter of several circular
objects, like cups, frisbees, and coins. Then use a calculator to discover pi
by dividing circumference by diameter. (For a full, standards-aligned inquiry
lesson, see my Measuring Circles resource. You can also use cereal O’s to
discover pi with my Investigating Circle Area resource.)
Go on a circle hunt around the school. Look for big circles, small circles,
concentric circles, and colorful circles. Try to find circles that have marks or
objects that represent the center, diameter, radius, chords, arcs, or
circumference. Or, see who can find the most circles in a set amount of time.
Convert as many numbers as you can into “units” of pi. You’re 12 years old?
That’s 3.82πyears! (12÷3.14=3.82) How many πcentimeters tall are you?
Make circle art. Use colored markers to trace lots of different sized circles
on white paper. Color some of the circles, or leave them all empty.
(Updated February 2017: Links checked, word search added, TOU updated.)
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 Name_________________________ Date___________
Pi or Pie?
Can you find all of these words in the grid? Words may appear horizontally, vertically, or diagonally and
forwards or backwards. Circle Pi words in BLUE and pie words in RED.
APPLE CHORD CRISP GEOMETRY RADIUS
AREA CIRCLE CRUST IRRATIONAL RATIO
ARC CIRCUMFERENCE DECIMAL PI SPHERE
CHERRY COBBLER DIAMETER PIE TART
CHOCOLATE CONSTANT DIGITS PUMPKIN VOLUME

P C E M R C H O R D G C R U S T
R T N A T S N O C I E A I E R S
D E C I M A L S H G T R O C A U
A N R I K D X J O I C F C H T I
R F I B R E D E O T A P L E I D
C L R I J C D C H S P H E R E A
I C R M D I U O V G B B Q R O R
P O A R E T E M A I D G I Y P V
C B T U R R E P F C H E B H U S
I B I Y A L C M R E V O I R M Y
T L O C P E L A W N R M Y K P C
A E N P M S R P P C I E A L K R
R R A U B I F A S H P T N S I A
T E L O G D T S I Z I R H C N D
O O C I R C L E R N D Y M E E S
V E M E T A L O C O H C O P I E
©2016 Kristin Jones All rights reserved. www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Elementary-Inquiry Pi Word Search
 Name_________________________ Date___________
Pi or Pie?
Can you find all of these words in the grid? Words may appear horizontally, vertically, or diagonally and
forwards or backwards. Circle Pi words in BLUE and pie words in RED.
APPLE CHORD CRISP GEOMETRY RADIUS
AREA CIRCLE CRUST IRRATIONAL RATIO
ARC CIRCUMFERENCE DECIMAL PI SPHERE
CHERRY COBBLER DIAMETER PIE TART
CHOCOLATE CONSTANT DIGITS PUMPKIN VOLUME

P C E M R C H O R D G C R U S T
R T N A T S N O C I E A I E R S
D E C I M A L S H G T R O C A U
A N R I K D X J O I C F C H T I
R F I B R E D E O T A P L E I D
C L R I J C D C H S P H E R E A
I C R M D I U O V G B B Q R O R
P O A R E T E M A I D G I Y P V
C B T U R R E P F C H E B H U S
I B I Y A L C M R E V O I R M Y
T L O C P E L A W N R M Y K P C
A E N P M S R P P C I E A L K R
R R A U B I F A S H P T N S I A
T E L O G D T S I Z I R H C N D
O O C I R C L E R N D Y M E E S
V E M E T A L O C O H C O P I E
©2016 Kristin Jones All rights reserved. www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Elementary-Inquiry Pi Word Search Answer Key
 Digits
1000 Slices of Pie
X
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971
693993751058209749445923078164062862089986
280348253421170679821480865132823066470938
446095505822317253594081284811174502841027
019385211055596446229489549303819644288109
756659334461284756482337867831652712019091
456485669234603486104543266482133936072602
491412737245870066063155881748815209209628
292540917153643678925903600113305305488204
665213841469519415116094330572703657595919
530921861173819326117931051154807446237996
274956735188575272489122793818301194912983
367336244065664308602139494639522473719070
217986094370277053921717629317675238467481
846766940513200056812714526356082778577134
275778960917363717872146844090122495343014
654958537105079227968925892354201995611212
902196086403441815981362977477130996051870
721134999999837297804995105973173281609631
859502445945534690830264252230825334468503
526193118817101000313783875288658753320838
142061717766917303598253490428755468731159
562863882353787593751957781857780532171226
8066130019278766111959092164201989...
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