Let's celebrate the Pi week and algebra together !

 

For this special event, we collaborate around 6 experimentations about Pi, and we whare our discoveries online !

Find information about Pi and create a poster showing the different ways to find Pi.

Experimentations at school : 

 

• The needles of BUFFON
  Throw a set of needles or matches on a striped floor ;

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• The MonteCarlo method and beans :
  Throw a set of beans in a square with a quarter of a circle inscribed ; 

  
  

• The Pi necklace :
  Use a different color for each number from 0 to 9 and create a pearl necklace following the shape of the sequence of digits ;

• Pi in Pie :
  Find the number of each digit in the first 1000 digits of pi, and draw a circular diagram with their frequencies

  
  

•  Tennis can problem
  Students are given a tennis ball can filled with three tennis balls. They are to determine a relationship between the circumference of one tennis ball and the height of the can.

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• Toilet paper problem
  Students are given a roll of toilet paper. They are to determine a relationship between one tour of paper and the number of diameter this stripe holds.​