Pi Day is coming up this Monday. Students all over the world will be celebrating and some wait until 3/14 at 1:59 to start! We are having our first Discovery Pi Memorization contest. If a students wants to compete and win they need to memorize the most digits of pi in their classroom. A simple way to explain pi is to share that the distance around a circle (circumference) is always a little more than three time across a circle (diameter). In fact it is 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679….times. Good luck this weekend to the students who want practice to win the class record title. Start with memorizing 5 digits and move up from there.

The record for finding consecutive numbers, from 3.14 onward to the final digit, is held by Fabrice Bellard, a teenager, who announced in January 2010 that he had calculated pi to 2.7 trillion digits!