{"id":23610,"date":"2016-03-18T09:08:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T17:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=23610"},"modified":"2016-03-19T09:15:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T17:15:39","slug":"celebrating-pi-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/?p=23610","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Pi Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days before her sister celebrated St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, Zoe&#8217;s class got into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piday.org\/\">Pi Day.<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0As described in the\u00c2\u00a0school newsletter:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym18_1_1458407364675_2625\">Students in third grade used Pi Day as a segue into their new Singapore math unit on geometry. In pairs, third graders measured various-sized circles using string. Through this activity, students discovered that regardless of the size of the circle, the ratio of the circumference to the diameter was always approximately 3.14. &#8220;As we tallied up our result [of the circle-measuring activity], students were excited to see who came closest to 3.14 with their measurement of the various circles,&#8221; says teacher Lori Galante. &#8220;One group actually got 3.145!&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>Below are Zoe and a classmate hard at work.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>-M<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23611\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Zoe-and-Kaia-in-school-small.jpg\" alt=\"Zoe and Kaia in school - small\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Zoe-and-Kaia-in-school-small.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Zoe-and-Kaia-in-school-small-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23612\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Zoe-and-Kaia-in-school2-small.jpg\" alt=\"Zoe and Kaia in school2 - small\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Zoe-and-Kaia-in-school2-small.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Zoe-and-Kaia-in-school2-small-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days before her sister celebrated St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, Zoe&#8217;s class got into Pi Day.\u00c2\u00a0As described in the\u00c2\u00a0school newsletter: Students in third grade used Pi Day as a segue into their new Singapore math unit on geometry. In pairs, third graders measured various-sized circles using string. Through this activity, students discovered that regardless of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-91-two-kids-jan-apr16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23613,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23610\/revisions\/23613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}