Pi Day WebQuest

DO AN INTERNET SEARCH!!

Pi is a letter of the Greek alphabet. Alpha is the first letter of this alphabet, what letter is pi? Choose the correct position of 'pi' in the Greek alphabet.

• sixteenth letter

• tenth letter

• fifteenth letter

• fourth letter

Pi is an important symbol in mathematics and looks like the Greek letter pi.

Describe in your own words what pi looks like.

Pi is what type of number.

• Irrational

• Rational

• Integer

• Real

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Which state tried to pass a law about the value of pi in 1897?

• Indiana

• Ohio

• California

• New York

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Hiroyuki Goto recited haw many digits of pi from memory in 1995?

Mathematical Equivalence

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For fun, go to the website https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/find-you-birthday-pi and find your birthdate in pi. Which digits contain your birthday?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/find-you-birthday-pi

Choose the episode of Star Trek in which Spock asked a computer to calculate the last digit of pi.

Here's a clip of that episode.

https://www.inverse.com/article/29052-pi-day-3-14-2018-spock-star-trek

• The Ultimate Computer

• Amok Time

• The Wolf in the Fold

• The Doomsday Machine

Name two movies or books in which the number pi plays an important part in the story.

• Life of Pi and Pi

• The Godfather and Pulp Fiction

• Finding Nemo and The Matrix

• Contact and The Net

Time to do an internet search.

Pi is the ratio of what to what?

• Circumference to diameter

• Diameter to circumference

• Area to circumference

• Circumference to area

Name a famous person with the initials AE who has a birthday on Pi Day.

• Albert Einstein

• Alan Turing

• Alfred Hitchcock

• Alexander Pope