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WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP – Bunker Hill Middle School eighth-graders are getting ready to make pi look like a piece of cake. BHMS Mathematics teachers Monica Westerby and Michelle Mazzulla have 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 – and will host their sixth annual Pi Day Challenge on Tuesday, March 14 (3/14, like 3.14), 2017.
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.” The final competition will hit the stage of the BHMS cafeteria again on Tuesday morning beginning just prior to 11 a.m.
Competitors, broken up into two teams, will have to eat a whole whipped cream pie, under which – printed on the plate – are three digits of pi. After all the pies are eaten, the teams must come together and create the correct order of the pi sequence as given. In addition to the pi-eating contest, the winner of the pi recital contest will be announced.
Bunker Hill Middle School is located at 372 Pitman-Downer Road, Sewell, NJ 08080.
Pi Day Challenge Coming
Bunker Hill Middle School Eighth-Graders Readying for Annual “Pi-Eating” Competition on Tuesday, March 14th
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP – Bunker Hill Middle School eighth-graders are getting ready to make pi look like a piece of cake. BHMS Mathematics teachers Monica Westerby and Michelle Mazzulla have 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 – and will host their sixth annual Pi Day Challenge on Tuesday, March 14 (3/14, like 3.14), 2017.
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.” The final competition will hit the stage of the BHMS cafeteria again on Tuesday morning beginning just prior to 11 a.m.
Competitors, broken up into two teams, will have to eat a whole whipped cream pie, under which – printed on the plate – are three digits of pi. After all the pies are eaten, the teams must come together and create the correct order of the pi sequence as given. In addition to the pi-eating contest, the winner of the pi recital contest will be announced.
Bunker Hill Middle School is located at 372 Pitman-Downer Road, Sewell, NJ 08080.
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