Adam Kempa (and Ryan), I love you! Pi(e) is amazing.

I’m guessing it took 3.14159(…) apples to fill the inside? Good job Brescoe.

I love joke food.

What Kempa didn’t mention:

1. The Pi took Ryan over 2 hours to make.
2. Ryan made the Pi from scratch.
3. The Pi was delicious.

I have to agree–Pi was fabulous.

I had sex with the Pi, and it took me exactly 3.14159 minutes to finish!

There are exactly 3.14159 jokes left to be made about pi(e).

O.k….

Every year on 3/14, we celebrate “Pi Day.” We have the kids bring pies (apple, rhubarb, ice cream, pizza….we don’t care as long as it is edible) and then we find the Surface Area, Lateral Area, Volume, Sector information, etc. In order to find these measurements, we pretend that the pie is a right cylinder. I make them do the work, then after I verify the results (via a slick little excel spreadsheet), they may dig in and eat the pie (but I have to cut it, because I am the only person who can use any type of knife in my classroom and not get expelled).

Hopefully you see why we do this on 3/14. If not, you need to increase your nerdliness. However, some interesting facts about Pi Day:

1. We aren’t the only school who does this. Schools do this all over our great nation. Just google “Pi Day.”
2. According to some website I found last year, 3/15 is what as known as “Little Pi Day” because 15 is the thousandth and ten-thousandth digits of pi (and, I think, that sometimes you may need to celebrate “Pi Day” on a different day, because it may fall on a weekend. Of course, last year, 14th was a Saturday, 15th was a Sunday, so we celebrated it on a 13th, which was Friday, and had nothing to do with pi.).
3. 3/14 is Einstein’s birthday. And, dammit, any dude who can’t tie his shoes, but who fit his calculations for the theory of relativity on the front side of an 8.5″ by 11″ sheet of paper should have his b’day celebrated by thousands upon thousands of kids for absolutely no other reason.

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