A Teacher’s View: Pi Day Makes Math Engaging for Students — and Demonstrates Math’s Importance in the World Outside the Classroom

I’ve taught math for 23 years, and that’s meant 23 Pi Days. Every year, people make puns about pizza pies and fruit pies and the number pi. Yet past the fun associated with March 14, I’ve found that Pi Day is an opportunity to help students learn how to solve problems in the classroom and throughout the world around them. (more)