(Courtesy of Mathnasium) Mathnasium of Teaneck celebrated their favorite math holiday, Pi (π) Day, which takes place every year on March 14 (3.14 = the first three digits of pi, though it’s a number that goes on forever)! Math enthusiasts around the world celebrate Pi Day every year, and more than 40 students in Teaneck followed suit at Mathnasium.

With math games, pi-recitation contests, projects, pizza, candy and of course pie, the center’s very first pi night was a huge success. Special thanks to Zadie’s Kosher Bake Shop in Fair Lawn for the delicious pies, EJ’s Pizza for the pizza, and World of Goodies for the candy.

With all this hullabaloo, you may be wondering… what exactly is pi?

Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference (the distance around the circle) to its diameter (the distance across the circle). Pi is also an irrational number, which means that it cannot be expressed exactly as a common fraction. When you take the distance around the circle and divide it by the distance across the circle, you always get the same number: pi! It doesn’t matter how big the circle is—it could be as small as a dime or as big as the sun—the distance around divided by the distance across always comes out to be the same number. Throughout history, pi’s been used in calculations by astronomers, architects, engineers, computer programmers, sociologists, statisticians, physicists…the list goes on. Indeed, the world as we know it would be very, very different without pi!

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