Pi and Pi Day PowerPoint Presentation

Celebrate pi day! This resource contains an informative and fully editable 68 slide PowerPoint presentation on pi and Pi Day.

The pi day slideshow focuses on:

• The history of pi - Babylon and Egypt - Rhind Papyrus

• Archimedes calculations - Pythagorean Theorem and use of polygons

• Origin of pi symbol – William Jones and Leonhard Euler

• Infinite nature of pi – irrational number

• World record-holders for remembering pi digits

• Piems and mnemonics for remembering pi digits and formulas for circumference and area of a circle

• Pi Day

• Different ways Pi Day is celebrated

• How hat size is determined by pi

• Albert Einstein sharing his birthday with Pi Day

• Pi Dingbats

• Suggestions and ideas for Pi Day activities -pi necklace or bracelet, making piems/mnemonics, cutting pi

The pi day ppt (power point) also contains hyperlinks to:

• Display of the first million digits of pi

• Pi rap called ‘Lose Yourself In The Digits’ by Pi Diddy

• Video - Math Antics - Circles, What Is Pi?

• Pi-Search Page - a website that searches the first 200 million digits of pi in a fraction of a second

• Pi Domino Spiral

This resource contains unlimited access to an editable, 68 slide PowerPoint pi day presentation on pi and Pi Day.