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March 13, 2009

Pi day activities

Pi DayAs you may have read yesterday in my weekend activities post, tomorrow (March 14) is Pi Day, a celebration of pi (3.14), the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Besides going to the pi fest at the Maryland Science Center to see what they have in store, here are some other fun (and, sh!, educational) things you can do with children to celebrate:

--Your kids may not know that 3.14 is just the rounded version of pi, which actually has endless digits beyond its decimal point. You can find 10,000 of them, along with other fun pi facts, at The Joy of Pi. Then convert the digits into a musical sequence here.

--Learn about pi's history here.

--This site from Scholastic offers activities geared to different age groups, including fun with balls and hoops for the younger set and pie chart ideas for older kids.

--Pi Day is also Albert Einstein's birthday. Kids can learn about him here.

--Make Irish salmon pie for dinner. Here's the recipe from an Emeril Lagasse kids' cookbook we tried last year. Or make pie for dessert. And, hey, if you don't want to cook, pizza makes the pi-pie tie-in beautifully.

(Photo of last year's Pi Day at the Maryland Science Center by Baltimore Sun photographer Lloyd Fox)

Posted by Kate Shatzkin at 10:15 AM | | Comments (1)
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Pretty cute. Thanks for the update, and that salmon pie sounds...interesting.

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About Kate Shatzkin
Kate Shatzkin is the parenting and families content editor at The Baltimore Sun and, before that, was its family beat reporter. But her most challenging and rewarding job is being mother to Leah, 8, and Sam, 6.

In her 14 years at The Baltimore Sun, Kate also has covered nonprofit organizations, prisons and courts, and has written several investigative series. She was previously a Knight journalism fellow at Yale Law School and a reporter at the Seattle Times and at the Patriot-Ledger of Quincy, Mass. She lives in Baltimore with her family.

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