Pi Day 2024

For Pi Day 2024, I’ve actually been marketing a local ‘Pi day 2024’ event that I’ve spent my own money on executing and marketing.

I can’t wait to have kids try a new pi memorization challenge, a new“Pin the Tail on the PI” activity, as well as favorites from years past like the pythagorean marbles activity and drawing concentric circles with chalk and string.

I used GPT-4 to create all of the illustrations (except the actual pictures), and also included the prompts used to create them. I’d love to do an “AI Station” for parents but we’ll see if computers and weather allows it.

More information and to sign up is at bit.ly/pidayeugene24 ! I’m expecting around 20 friends and kids to show up!

When I was in elementary-high school, I struggled and definitely didn’t see math as anything but a challenge to be conquered. But around the time of high school statistics, I started to see it was a creative challenge and something that could be figured out, repeated patterns to be solved. From there, around my sophomore year of college, I started seeing it as something joyous and downright abstract.

As a math teacher for 10 years in Fresno, I tried to help kids see math not as the most hated subject, but something they could find interesting and solveable… PI day was something that kids looked forward to every year.

Last year on facebook I asked former students to tell me things they remembered about my class, and one of them mentioned this video: