PI DAY 2021 was celebrated in our school online.

The reason was the pandemic of course... 

We invited the students to take part na a FB challenge. Every hour, from 12.00 till 14.00 there was a task for them to solve. 

1. Find a poem by a Polish poet telling about PI number. Send it to our school e-mail address with a short comment. The first, the best. 

The poem is "Pi" by Wisława Szymborska, a Nobel Prize winner! 

The admirable number pi:
three point one four one.
All the following digits are also initial,
five nine two because it never ends.
It can't be comprehended six five three five at a glance,
eight nine by calculation,
seven nine or imagination,
not even three two three eight by wit, that is, by comparison
four six to anything else
two six four three in the world.
The longest snake on earth calls it quits at about forty feet.
Likewise, snakes of myth and legend, though they may hold out a bit longer.
The pageant of digits comprising the number pi
doesn't stop at the page's edge.
It goes on across the table, through the air,
over a wall, a leaf, a bird's nest, clouds, straight into the sky,
through all the bottomless, bloated heavens.
Oh how brief - a mouse tail, a pigtail - is the tail of a comet!
How feeble the star's ray, bent by bumping up against space!
While here we have two three fifteen three hundred nineteen
my phone number your shirt size the year
nineteen hundred and seventy-three the sixth floor
the number of inhabitants sixty-five cents
hip measurement two fingers a charade, a code,
in which we find hail to thee, blithe spirit, bird thou never wert
alongside ladies and gentlemen, no cause for alarm,
as well as heaven and earth shall pass away,
but not the number pi, oh no, nothing doing,
it keeps right on with its rather remarkable five,
its uncommonly fine eight,
its far from final seven,
nudging, always nudging a sluggish eternity
to continue.

2. Click on the link and solve a short TRUE/FALSE task (PI number facts). Remember, the first, the best. 

You can try the task clicking on the link below. 

PI facts

3. What is the area of the figure presented in the picture ( one square is 1) ? Send the answer to our school e-mail. The first, the best. 

Beside the challenge, three groups of students took part in online lectures by Silesian University in Katowice. The link to the lectures below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUhvIijiO3w