Elementary STEAM Students Celebrate Pi Day on 3/14

On Friday, March 14, 2025, students in Mrs. Holzman's STEAM lab at Buchanan-Verplanck Elementary School participated in several activities related to Pi Day, a fun celebration of the mathematical constant Pi. The number, which is approximately 3.14, is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.

Kindergarten students explored circles and built towers to represent the special number of Pi. First graders used the digits of Pi to create a cityscape and used a wax resist watercolor technique, in which wax is applied to paper before painting over it with watercolors.

Our second graders also explored circles, learning to use a compass to create circles of various sizes. Then, much like the artist Wassily Kandinsky, they layered the circles and placed them on trees.

"The students learned so much about Pi," Holzman said. "And they had fun, too!"

Here are more examples of the Pi Day activities: