Hialeah Miami Lakes Senior High School’s (HML) Mu Alpha Theta club celebrated Pi Day, a date that was celebrated around the world on March 14. The date, 3/14/15, formed the first five numbers of the mathematical symbol Pi that represents the ratio of circumference of a circle to its diameter, 3.14159.
The event, hosted by the Mu Alpha Theta sponsor, Marielena Viciedo, the Math Department head, Madeline Domenech and math department teachers, was held in the school gymnasium and featured a variety of Pi related activities.
The Mu Alpha Theta team and all participants had six different stations to visit which included building a bridge, an egg relay race, a bean count, and calculating areas for area and volume of three dimensional figures, finding the value of pi using circular figures, and determining if different sized circles cover the same area in a square.
“Pi Day is special to those that appreciate math and its numerical significance to the most common shape or figures we see today,” said Vicideo. “I believe it is important for the students to see the impact that math plays in their lives, therefore the event was created to provide a positive interaction among students, parents and math teachers beyond the classroom.”