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Mineral Wells eighth grader Thaddeus Harrison measures the circumference of the photographer’s camera lens. The "Pi Day" activity helped students learn how math elements, like Pi, are around them in everyday objects. Libby Cluett/Index
Houston Elementary second grader Ymani Wilson, pictured, was the first of two students priveledged with pitching a whipped-cream pie into the face of music teacher Adam Hull, Friday. The honor came, ironically, because Wilson's name was picked out of the bowl filled with names of Houston Good Citizens of the Week. Libby Cluett/Index
Throughout Houston Elementary, and the entire Mineral Wells ISD, students celebrated Pi Day. Here, Adolfo Rodriquez clears the ground as he uses a circular Hula Hoop as a jump rope in physical education class. Libby Cluett/Index
Balea Wells, Elizabeth Gomez and Jennifer Harrison team together to calculate how Pi applies to the handrail at the front entrance of the junior high. Libby Cluett/Index
Rolando Ruiz measures a Texas Sage, to see if the shrub fits the equation, while Dale Logan observes. Libby Cluett/Index

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March 10, 2013

MWISD – making students hungry for Pi

Anonymous Mineral Wells Index The Mineral Wells Index Sun Mar 10, 2013, 06:04 PM CDT

By LIBBY CLUETT

March is a month full of celebration, and many math aficionados have their sites on next week's Pi Day, a worldwide celebration of the mathematical constant 3.14159, or Pi.

This number represents the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.

Since Pi Day – appropriately, March 14 – falls in the middle of spring break, Mineral Wells ISD celebrated Friday morning with learning activities at each campus.

Houston Elementary had all sorts of contests, including how many digits kids could remember after the decimal point – an infinite number. The winner reached 43 digits, but mathematicians have calculated Pi to over one trillion digits beyond its decimal point.

Each grade level at Houston also tried to bring in 314 cans of food to be donated to a local food bank.

Other campuses joined the early celebration. Debbie Yates' and Autumn Lanes' eighth grade math students explored the outdoors around Mineral Wells Junior High, finding circular objects that would measure up to Pi – meter covers, the base of a flagpole and a photographer's camera lens.

Students at Travis Elementary and the high school also partook in the math celebration.

Second grader Ymani Wilson perhaps had the most fun by being the Houston Good Citizen prize winner, granting her a chance to serve a pie in the face of music teacher Adam Hull.