{"id":26943,"date":"2015-03-14T19:56:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T23:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=26943"},"modified":"2015-03-14T20:35:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T00:35:02","slug":"super-pi-day-at-city-of-fairfax-regional-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=26943","title":{"rendered":"Super Pi Day at City of Fairfax Regional Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was Super Pi Day!  3.14.15, celebrated especially between 9:26:53 am and 9:26:53 pm.<br \/>\n(My son says it should be called Slightly-More-Accurate-Approximation-of-Pi Day, but I&#8217;m going with Super Pi Day.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/PiDay1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/PiDay1.jpg\" alt=\"PiDay1\" width=\"495\" height=\"430\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/PiDay1.jpg 495w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/PiDay1-300x261.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got my geek on, with my Floating Point Pi Earrings from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/\">ThinkGeek<\/a>, my Pi t-shirt from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathematikum.de\/\">Mathematikum<\/a> in Giessen, Germany, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sock-It-To-Me-Womens\/dp\/B00BSE2NXY\/ref=pd_sxp_f_pt\">Apple Pi socks<\/a>, and of course <a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=25603\">my Prime Factorization Cardigan<\/a>.  I also brought in a Chocolate Angel Pi Pie.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite comment was when I was explaining all this to one of the Library Friends.  She said, &#8220;It&#8217;s good to see someone who loves what they do.&#8221;  My translation:  &#8220;You <strong>really are<\/strong> a Math Geek.&#8221;  Yes, I am.  Yes, I am.<\/p>\n<p>Since a Children&#8217;s Used Book Sale was going on all day, we couldn&#8217;t use the meeting room, and decided to run an all-day Pi Day Scavenger Hunt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Scavenger-Sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Scavenger-Sign.jpg\" alt=\"Scavenger Sign\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Scavenger-Sign.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Scavenger-Sign-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Participants only needed to answer 8 of the 10 questions, and we hoped they&#8217;d be pulled into the library to answer them.  They were to write the answer on the pie piece, and get a prize when all the pieces were filled in.  These were the questions:<\/p>\n<p>1.  For any circle, pi equals the circumference of the circle divided by what?<br \/>\n2.  Albert Einstein was born on March 14th.  What famous equation did he write?<br \/>\n3.  Some people think we should celebrate Super Pi Day next year.  Why is that?<br \/>\n4.  What library number would you look under for books about pi?<br \/>\n5.  What library number would you look under for books about pie?<br \/>\n6.  List another irrational number.<br \/>\n7.  What U.S. city has the zip code 31415?<br \/>\n8.  Find a book in the library with &#8220;circle&#8221; in the title.  List the title.<br \/>\n9.  What letter comes after pi in the Greek alphabet?<br \/>\n10. Someone in the library is wearing a prime factorization sweater.  What is her name?  (Hint:  You can google it.)<\/p>\n<p>The prize was a wristband from <a href=\"http:\/\/thepidayofourlives.homestead.com\/\">thepidayofourlives.homestead.com<\/a> celebrating Pi Day, along with some circular candies.<\/p>\n<p>We ordered 57 wristbands.  A hat came along with it, and none of my coworkers wanted to wear it, so I added it to my Pi gear:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/PiDay2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/PiDay2.jpg\" alt=\"PiDay2\" width=\"318\" height=\"251\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/PiDay2.jpg 637w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/PiDay2-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Response was wonderful!  By the end of the day, we&#8217;d given out 56 wristbands!  I loved watching the kids working to figure out the answers.  And I&#8217;ve never gotten the chance to talk to so many people about my prime factorization sweater all on the same day!<\/p>\n<p>I admit this family, with Super Pi, Pi a la mode, and a Pi-rate, were my favorites:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Customers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Customers.jpg\" alt=\"Customers\" width=\"334\" height=\"521\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Customers.jpg 334w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Customers-192x300.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But overall, it was simply a huge success!<\/p>\n<p>I was going to fill in the answers, but instead, why don&#8217;t you add them in the comments if you know the answers?  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Happy Happy Slightly-Better-Approximation-of-Pi Day!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was Super Pi Day! 3.14.15, celebrated especially between 9:26:53 am and 9:26:53 pm. (My son says it should be called Slightly-More-Accurate-Approximation-of-Pi Day, but I&#8217;m going with Super Pi Day.) I got my geek on, with my Floating Point Pi Earrings from ThinkGeek, my Pi t-shirt from the Mathematikum in Giessen, Germany, Apple Pi socks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,70,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-library-links","category-mathematical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}