Our Erasmus task for March was to mark and celebrate Pi day. Pi day is the 14th of March (the 14th day of the 3rd month creating the number 3.14). Internationally it is a day that is recognised for celebrating and appreciating mathematics. In year 5 we started by watching a video which explained to us the history of Pi, how it is used to calculate the circumference of a circle and why pi day is celebrated. We were then divided into teams of three and had a multiple intelligence Pi day gymkhana. We had six different Pi related tasks to carry out. We used QR codes to obtain each task which we could access once we had correctly carried out the previous task. Besides learning about the number Pi the activities were designed to work using the different intelligence types. These included linguistic, maths and logic, music, interpersonal, kinesthetic and visual intelligence. We had a great morning! Year 4 In year 4 we investigated circles. We learnt about how to use Pi to calculate the ...
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