The Life of Pi

Beware the ides of March and a Happy Saint Patrick’s Day t'ya, but as winter snows abate and the vernal equinox comes nigh, a young mathematics teacher’s fancy turns to thoughts of...π.

Spreading like the ``Harlem Shake’’ meme, it seems every classroom across the land now observes an in-school holiday called Pi Day.  For the uninitiated, Pi Day is cleverly celebrated on March 14, or 3/14.  A quick trip over to Pinterest regales you with endless examples of the hackneyed puns, cartoons, song lyrics, decimal expansions, and other non-activities that grace school walls to mark this annular (HA!) event.