By Tom and Diiya
This week is Maths Week and we have been thinking all about how we can learn maths through stories. In Year 5 we are learning about a specific topic which has been pi.
We have been reading a book called ‘Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi.’ In this story a boy called Radius discovers pi and shares it with the world and for this discovery a feast of pie is held. We also made wheels with strips of paper and discovered that it took 3.14 or 3 1/7 diameters (one end to another at the widest point) to go all the way around the circumference (all the way around the circle). This is pi. The number does not change in any circle, no matter how big or small the circle is. The radius is half of the diameter (from the centre point of the circle to the edge of it). We also used strawberry laces to measure the circumference of food we brought in (yum)!
Last of all we made a poster to explain to the younger years what pi is.
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