Photo by Alan M. Dumoff
Left, Students of Holy Family School, Ventnor, calculate the circumference of a pizza on “Pi Day.”
Students at Holy Family, Ventnor and Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Berlin celebrated “Pi Day” recently, in honor of 3.14, the mathematical constant, and the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.
On Saturday, March 13 (3/13), Holy Family students in geometry and math classes in grades 5-8, participated in a pi challenge, going to different stations and, using real pies such as pizza or apple, and pi, to find the circumference of the real pie.
On March 17, students of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and St. Andrew the Apostle, Gibbsboro, celebrated a Pi Day, which included learning about pi, creating pi haiku poems, and a contest in reciting pi digits. As well, students raised money for the missions and for the House of Charity/Bishop’s Annual Appeal. Each time a certain financial milestone was reached ($50, then $100, then $200), students got the opportunity to “pi” various school/parish personnel.
Father Jose Manjakunnel, parochial vicar of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, and Father Joseph Ferrara, pastor, were both “pi-ed.”
The school raised $200 for the missions, and $300 for the House of Charity.