Maroochydore State School
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56-68 Primary School Court
Maroochydore QLD 4558
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Pi day - some maths fun

March 14 marks an extremely nerdy day on the calendar. (Particularly written in the American format 3/14).

It is the official celebration of Pi - π, the magical, mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.

For any circle you can imagine, if you divide the distance around a circle by the distance across it, you will get pi or π or 

3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749 ...... and on and on, I could keep going, but you get the picture!

Last year we had a number of students who excelled with their large recall of the numbers of pi.