- April 25, 2024
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Nolan students snacked on chocolate cream, apple, cherry and other types of pies.
Volunteers Paula Siegel, Bonnie Golon, Shea Haupt and Nitza De Jesus dished out pie Nolan Middle students' parents donated for the event.
Nolan seventh-grader Ashley Pascarella recites as many digits in the Pi sequence as she can remember.
East County middle schoolers decorated the Pi symbol with flowers, cupcakes and bright colors.
Nolan math teacher Mary Anne Maginot explains how to use Pi to find the circumference of a circle.
Joseph Baumeister and T.J. Bellaire enjoy two forms of Pi and pie during math class at Nolan.
Bryson Robertson, a Nolan student, uses a calculator on his phone to solve an equation, while snacking on pie.
Chocolate cream pie was the group's favorite, as Emanuel Ibarra, Maya Lander, Crystal Paver and Dylan Katchen find the diameter of a circle.
Morgan Jendro loves eating pie, while solving an equation that involves Pi.
Braden River Middle student Stephany Carruido uses string to measure a circle.
Cameron Root shows off the apple pie he plans to eat after he solves a Pi equation in his Braden River math class.
Eighth-grade math teacher Wendy Pittman leads a just-for-fun activity on words that include the word "Pi."
Braden River students Andrew Landers, Brecken Fair, Christopher Bowers and Imran Sandhu show off their Pi Day shirts.
Decked out in her Pi earrings, shirt and nail polish, Braden River Middle math teacher Faith Hipple-Bench explains a graph that students created using Pi.
Braden River student Marcos Molina shades in a Pi graph.
Ruby Gonzalez-Diaz and America Arrieta, Braden River students, show off their Pi Day garb while working on a math lesson.
Although homophones with different meanings and spellings, coupling pie and Pi was a no-brainer today.
In celebration of Pi Day March 14, East County schools served up chocolate cream, apple, cherry and other pie variations.
Braden River and Nolan middle schools' math teachers gave their students sweet treats throughout the day, while also leading lessons on topics that involved Pi.
Students used string, construction paper and rulers to measure circles and determine the diameter and circumference of the shapes.
Nolan students competed to see who could recite the greatest number of digits of Pi.
"These events are a fun way to get students excited about math," Braden River Middle math teacher Faith Hipple-Bench said. "A lot of people have a negative feeling about math, but this shows it can be fun; it's more about problem solving than memorization."
