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WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP – It might have been a day late, but things still got a little messy for the math whizzes at Bunker Hill Middle School on Wednesday, March 15, 2017. Tuesday’s inclement weather pushed the school’s annual Pi Day Challenge back one day, but math teachers Monica Westerby and Michelle Mazzulla continued their creative celebration of pi – the mathematical calculation to determine the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, widely known to be rounded down to 3.14.
In 2012, BHMS came up with the idea of holding a contest to see who could recite pi to the most decimal places, with the students who won that competition in each eighth-grade math class advancing to a “pi-eating contest” on March 14th (3/14, or 3.14 for this case). The final competition hit the stage of the BHMS cafeteria again on Wednesday morning.
Competitors, broken up into two teams – Team B representing Westerby’s classes, and Team H representing Mazzulla’s – had to eat a whole whipped cream pie, under which – printed on the plate – were three digits of pi. After all the pies were deemed eaten by judges, the teams had to come together and create the correct order of the pi sequence as given. The emcee of the event was Albert Einstein (as portrayed by BHMS English teacher Kevin Appleby), who shares his birthday with Pi Day.
Team H, composed of Bart Buonocore, Derek Diaco, Clare Johnson, Alaina Sapienza and J.C. Beasley, narrowly earned the victory and the coveted Pi Day Challenge trophy. The runners up on Team B included Billy Abrams, Paige Speece, Vincent DeStefano, Adam McAteer and Michele Mateo.
Getting Their Fill of "Pi"
Bunker Hill Middle School Eighth-Graders Compete for Trophy at Annual “Pi-Eating” Competition on Wednesday, March 15th
In 2012, BHMS came up with the idea of holding a contest to see who could recite pi to the most decimal places, with the students who won that competition in each eighth-grade math class advancing to a “pi-eating contest” on March 14th (3/14, or 3.14 for this case). The final competition hit the stage of the BHMS cafeteria again on Wednesday morning.
Competitors, broken up into two teams – Team B representing Westerby’s classes, and Team H representing Mazzulla’s – had to eat a whole whipped cream pie, under which – printed on the plate – were three digits of pi. After all the pies were deemed eaten by judges, the teams had to come together and create the correct order of the pi sequence as given. The emcee of the event was Albert Einstein (as portrayed by BHMS English teacher Kevin Appleby), who shares his birthday with Pi Day.
Team H, composed of Bart Buonocore, Derek Diaco, Clare Johnson, Alaina Sapienza and J.C. Beasley, narrowly earned the victory and the coveted Pi Day Challenge trophy. The runners up on Team B included Billy Abrams, Paige Speece, Vincent DeStefano, Adam McAteer and Michele Mateo.
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