There will be one winner in each grade, from first grade to eighth grade
To win the contest, you must remember more places of PI than anyone else in your grade (Mr. Bergen)
I will bake you a PIE if you win. You can choose blueberry or strawberry or apple or or vanilla or chocolate!
Click here to listen to a song called Interval Circumference by an incredibly talented math and music high school student named David Kalinoski from Harrisburg PA who created the lyrics using Snoop Dogg's Sensual Seduction for his own class project prior to 3/14/08; click
here for the permission agreement.
Much thanks to Natalie Jenkins (David's cousin) who is a colleague of the parent of the girl in grade one who won the pie contest on 3/14/08.
Those students who won a pie on 3/14/08 can compete for the contest but cannot win the pie!
Click here to read about John Tierny from the NY Times who is sponsoring a national contest to win a pie on PI day!
Click here for the celebration at Washington State University.
Students at Lincoln School in RI ("Storefront has a grade 6 wiki with them") had their own PI contest this year ...
click here for the link from Ms. Hunt
Daniell Tammet can recite 22,500+ digits
of pi in about 5 hours ... click here
for an interview with David Letterman ...
so interesting how he visualizes numbers in colors (contributed by Dafna Sarnoff, a former student of mine ... Mr. Bergen
Special thanks to Bob from Zabar's on 91st Street (Vinegar Factory) who
... Bob has been very nice to me in giving me PIE boxes so that I can give them to the boys and girls who win the contest ... thanks Bob!