Happy Pi Day and Happy Birthday Albert Einstein

Posted on March 14, 2017 by cneseralla

It is a great day to stay huddled inside memorizing Pi. The Discovery Academy contest will be on Thursday. Every classroom can have a winner. Try chunking the numbers, making a rap or turning Pi into a song. Pi Day is celebrated all over the world, “Albert Einstein was born on March 14, which is also celebrated as Pi Day, honoring the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, otherwise known as the mathematical constant π. One of science’s greatest minds of all time, Albert Einstein, was born on March 14, 1879, at his family’s home in Ulm, Germany.”

START Memorizing Pi Day is Coming!

Posted on March 9, 2017 by cneseralla

MARCH 14th, 2017

We are having a Discovery Academy Pi memorization contest. A prize goes to the top student in each class with the highest number of digits in Pi they can memorize. Good luck everyone!

3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679

Pi Day 2016 Winners – Top memorization for each classroom that participated

4th Grade – Sirena 100, Chase 8

3rd Grade – Laasya 100, Michael 44, Tais 31

2nd Grade – Jaxon 33, Deana 20

1st Grade – Grace 14

Honorable Mention – Nihaal 61

Tie Breaker Sirena memorized 180 digits of Pi!

Integrating Math, Culture, Economics and Language Arts in First Grade

Posted on January 31, 2017 by cneseralla

First grade students are making baby dolls that are the same length and weight as they were when they were born! This multidisciplinary project allows us to get to know and appreciate one another’s cultures, families and backgrounds. For math, it gives us a personal connection to the study of measurement and comparing measurements. In Social Studies, we will be using the baby’s wants and needs to study economics. We will be synthesizing all this information in our writing of baby books, which coincides with our non-fiction writing unit.

Math Makes Me Hungry

Posted on January 26, 2017 by cneseralla

Check out third grade’s spectacular bulletin board.

Bad Dog Bart’s Treasure – PreK Math and Mapping

Posted on April 8, 2016 by cneseralla

We had fun in PreK searching for Bad Dog Bart’s treasure. Students traveled in packs and followed a map to different math stations. They preformed math tricks and discovered buried treasures. After the students drew their own maps. It was a great way to integrate social studies and math.

Our Final Pi Count 180 Digits!

Posted on March 18, 2016 by cneseralla

Today our grade level pi winners were given certificates and we watched our two top champions compete. Sirena shocked us all with memorizing 180 digits of pi. Amazing! Share what you think of our marvelous mathematicians?

More Pi Day Winners

Posted on March 16, 2016 by cneseralla

We have a few more champions to add to our list. These amazing students memorized digits of Pi. This Friday all the Discovery Academy winners will be given certificates and our two first prize winners will have a final contest to see how far past 100 they can go.

Kindergarten – Katelyn 19, Haley 19, Veronica 8
2nd Grade – Christian 11

Top Pi Day Winners

Posted on March 14, 2016 by cneseralla

We had our first Pi Day celebration and we’re amazed by the memorization ability of our students. The winners are:

4th Grade – Sirena 100 , Chase. 8
3rd Grade – Laasya 100, Michael 44, Tais 31
2nd Grade – Jaxon 33, Deana 20
1st Grade – Grace 14
Honorable Mention – Nihaal 61
Sirena and Laasya want to compete Friday for the top position. We will keep you posted.

Discovery’s First Pi Day Celebration this Monday

Posted on March 11, 2016 by cneseralla

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!