10 Ways to Celebrate Pi Day on March 14th

Make Pi Day memorable! Discover 10 engaging classroom activities for teachers, including virtual escape rooms, NASA challenges, Pi-themed art, and more. Celebrate 3.14 with fun and learning!

Pi Day (March 14th) is the perfect opportunity to inject some mathematical excitement into your classroom! Forget dry lectures; let’s dive into hands-on, interactive experiences that will have your students buzzing about Pi. Here are 10 Pi-tastic ways to celebrate.

Celebrate Pi Day Like a Pro: 10 Engaging Activities for Your Classroom

1. Play Pi Day Bingo: A Fun Way to Review Pi Facts (and More!)

This interactive presentation from Google offers a dynamic way to review Pi facts, formulas, and related mathematical concepts through a classic game of Bingo.

Bake this B-I-N-G-O activity into your classroom to celebrate Pi day while keeping students focused on fractions

2. Escape to Pi-rate Island Escape Room

Celebrate Pi Day in style with a swashbuckling adventure on Pi-rate Island. Navigate through mathematical challenges and puzzles, decode pirate maps, and unearth the hidden treasure that lies within the island’s mysterious caves. Includes a bonus junior version!

Revitalize your March lessons with the March Escape Room Bundle! Inspire your students with four immersive, no-prep virtual escape rooms, each offering a unique adventure.

🍀 Leprechaun’s Luck Escape Room
🥧 Escape to Pi-rate Island (includes a bonus junior version)
🏀 March Madness: Basketball Breakout (includes a bonus junior version)
🍀 Shamrock Shenanigans

3. Teach Pi Day with this HyperDoc Digital Lesson

The “Pi Day HyperDoc” is an interactive activity designed for students to explore the history and significance of Pi. It features four sections: “Explore,” “Explain,” “Apply & Share,” and “Connect & Extend,” each filled with activities and resources to engage students. Students will explore videos, articles, and games, read about Pi’s history and complete a 3-2-1 activity to check for understanding. Students will showcase their learning by creating a poster, comic strip, or timeline.

4. Participate in the NASA Pi Day Challenge.

This challenge presents real-world problems that NASA scientists and engineers face, requiring students to apply Pi to solve them.

5. Demystify Circumference and Diameter with PBS LearningMedia

Join the CyberSquad as they discover the relationship between a circle’s diameter and circumference to unlock a gate and escape. This Pi Day activity engages students in hands-on measurements and critical thinking, highlighting the importance of π (pi) in a fun and adventurous way.

6. Create a Pi-line skyline using Google Sheets

In this activity from Eric Curts students will create a vertical bar graph, where each bar’s height corresponds to each digit of Pi. This gives the impression of a city skyline, which the students then color in to make their own art piece.

7. Write a Pi-ku Poem

Pi-ku Poem Directions:

Celebrate Pi Day with a pi-ku, a playful twist on haiku poetry dedicated to π (pi). Follow these simple rules:

First line: 3 syllables
Second line: 1 syllable
Third line: 4 syllables

Create your own pi-ku and join the fun!

8. Memorize Pi: Challenge Your Memory Skills

Use the online Pi memorization game to challenge students to memorize as many digits of Pi as possible.

9. Pi Day Interactive Video Quizizz

Use the interactive video Quizizz to learn about Pi and then test your class’s knowledge of this unique number.

10. Read Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi

“Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi” is the perfect read-aloud book for Pi Day, combining math and adventure. In this story, Sir Cumference transforms into a dragon, prompting his son, Radius, and Lady Di of Ameter to embark on a quest to solve a riddle that will restore him to human form.