TeachersFirst's Pi Day Resources
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This collection of reviewed resources from TeachersFirst is selected to help teachers and students celebrate Pi Day and everything Pi through related projects and classroom activities. Whether you “circle around” Pi for one class or spend an entire unit on this very special number, the ideas included within the "In the Classroom" portion of reviews will launch discussions and meaningful projects for student-centered learning. Here’s Pi in your eye!
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Discovery Education Virtual Field Trips - Discovery Education
Grades
K to 12
tag(s): agriculture (59), animals (320), careers (146), constitution (88), design (88), energy (210), england (54), explorers (68), holocaust (41), lincoln (83), nutrition (159), pi (28), planets (131), shakespeare (109), spain (8), STEM (193), virtual field trips (54), weather (205)
In the Classroom
Immerse your students into your studies with a close-up in-depth look through virtual field trips. Visit places where time, money, and mileage inhibit your dreams for bringing your students into wondrous worlds. Find ways to visit where your class has never gone before. Find ways to motivate your most reluctant learners. ESL/ELL learners will appreciate the visit. Reach all types of learners through a class visit. Use field trips as a whole class anticipatory guide, a center activity, a home connection, or even as extra credit. Challenge your gifted students to be guides in their own learning by choosing topics of interest. Then ask these students to share research findings in a video with discussion questions to go with the research and with links to outside resources using a tool such as Rooclick, reviewed here. Be sure students create a script to read from before beginning to produce their own video.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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NCTM Illuminations Measurement Resources Grades 9-12 - NCTM
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): congress (36), estimation (47), geometric shapes (169), measurement (178), motion (70), pi (28), ratios (63), temperature (33)
In the Classroom
Bookmark this site for use when teaching different types of measurement. Share interactives on your whiteboard or during small group lessons and discuss problem-solving ideas with students. Add a link to interactives along with other online games to your class website for game play at home. Consider using a site like Symbaloo reviewed here as an excellent way to organize and share your resources. Have your students create videos sharing problem solving techniques used during these lessons. Share their videos using a tool such as SchoolTube reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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NCTM Illuminations Measurement Resources Grades 6-8 - NCTM
Grades
6 to 8tag(s): area (71), geometric shapes (169), mass (25), measurement (178), number sense (94), patterns (86), percent (81), pi (28), ratios (63), statistics (126), volume (53)
In the Classroom
Bookmark this site for use during your unit on measurement or to provide hands-on activities throughout the year. Share interactives on your whiteboard or during small group lessons and discuss problem-solving ideas with students. Add a link to interactives along with other online games to your class website for game play at home. Consider using a site like Symbaloo, reviewed here, as an excellent way to organize and share your resources. Have students upload a photo of a problem or portion of an activity and add voice bubbles to explain what they learned using a tool such as Superlame, reviewed here. Have groups of students participate in a Google Hangout, reviewed here, with students from another classroom to discuss problem-solving ideas and suggestions.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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NCTM Illuminations Geometry Resources Grades 9-12 - NCTM
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): area (71), flips (7), geometric shapes (169), logic (244), pi (28), probability (137), problem solving (294), pythagorean theorem (33), ratios (63), turns (4), volume (53)
In the Classroom
Keep this site with your professional favorites to find supporting technology and lessons for teaching geometry. As you find practice or extension ideas for student use or at home reinforcement, share specific links on your class web page or classroom computer center for students to access independently or as you assign them for needed practice. The full site is overwhelming for most parents, so share the specific areas that fit your curriculum.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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TeachersFirst's Math Resources for Algebra - Grade 6-8 - TeachersFirst
Grades
6 to 8tag(s): data (157), number lines (32), order of operations (40), percent (81), pi (28)
In the Classroom
Introduce these resources on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Share the resources on your class website for students to use for remediation or review. Share tools on your interactive whiteboard or in your BYOD classroom. Use these sites to differentiate for students in pre-algebra and algebra.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Math in Real Life - TEDed
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): estimation (47), geometric shapes (169), money (184), movies (69), pi (28), place value (54), puzzles (204), riddles (16), shakespeare (109), simple machines (36), space (226), symmetry (50), video (272)
In the Classroom
Math in Real Life isn't just for math class! Find videos from this series for use in all subject areas. Use the questions, additional resources, and discussion available for each video. Create your own lesson using the "Customize This Lesson" link. Use this option to personalize video lessons for your classroom. Have students dig deeper into any of the content of videos, then make a mashup using Panzoid, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Math Resources for Algebra - Grades 9-12 - TeachersFirst
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): data (157), number lines (32), percent (81), pi (28), quadratics (30), ratios (63)
In the Classroom
Share these resources on your class website for students to use for remediation or review. Share tools on your interactive whiteboard or in your BYOD classroom. Use these sites to differentiate.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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NCTM Illuminations Algebra Resources Grades 9-12 - NCTM
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8 to 12tag(s): charts and graphs (197), critical thinking (118), data (157), functions (69), geometric shapes (169), number lines (32), percent (81), pi (28), quadratics (30), ratios (63)
In the Classroom
Keep this site with your professional favorites to find supporting technology and lessons for teaching algebra. As you find practice or extension ideas for student use or at home reinforcement, share specific links on your class web page or classroom computer center for students to access independently or as you assign them for needed practice. The full site is overwhelming for most parents, so share the specific areas that fit your curriculum.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Math Study - Pi Day Vocabulary Games - Jan Cook
Grades
5 to 12tag(s): pi (28), vocabulary (314)
In the Classroom
Include these interactive activities with your math vocabulary studies or use for Pi Day activities. Include a link to puzzles on your class web page for students to complete at home. Use an online flashcard maker, like Flashcard Stash, reviewed here, to practice and learn math vocabulary.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Math Art for Kids: Pi Skyline - Erica (MomandKiddo)
Grades
K to 5This site includes advertising.
tag(s): charts and graphs (197), pi (28), STEM (193)
In the Classroom
Create a classroom display with all of your students' Pi Day Skylines. Take this idea and apply it to other number series. Have students take pictures of their creations and use Ourboox, reviewed here. Ourboox creates beautiful page-flipping digital books in minutes, and you can embed video, music, animation, games, maps and more.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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NBC Learn Free Resources - NBCUniversal Media, NBC News
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5 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): brain (66), civil rights (121), news (258), olympics (52), pi (28), sports (98), STEM (193), sustainability (17), video (272)
In the Classroom
This site is perfect for flipped or blended learning classrooms but will spark interest in most classroom lessons. Use the search box in the upper right corner to find free content of interest. NBC Learn uses a proprietary media player "Cue Card," and provides suggestions if you are having trouble playing. The whole class can watch the videos, many of which are parts of a series. Have individuals or small groups view and share information. The transcripts and close captioning will be helpful for struggling learners. Transcripts can be used alone for informational text reading practice.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Calculus: The Musical! - Matheatre
Grades
10 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): base ten (11), charts and graphs (197), exponents (44), mean (26), pi (28), video (272)
In the Classroom
Display videos and listen to musical tunes together on an interactive whiteboard (or with a projector) to engage and interest students. Use videos as a model and challenge cooperative learning groups to create videos on math concepts and share them on a site such as TeacherTube, reviewed here. Have students make a mash-up using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge Tools, reviewed here, to demonstrate Calculus concepts.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Celebrate Pi Day - NBC Learn
Grades
5 to 12tag(s): journalism (55), news (258), pi (28), problem solving (294), statistics (126), video (272)
In the Classroom
Stash this site in your bag of tricks for when you need an easy to teach lesson for a teacher in training or a substitute teacher. Use the videos as inspiration for finding math in other news stories. Have students find videos and create their own math and statistics questions for classmates to answer.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Math Monday - National Museum of Mathematics
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): colors (78), fractions (229), geometric shapes (169), origami (15), pi (28), puzzles (204)
In the Classroom
Share articles with students and replicate activities included in the article. Share the video demonstrations on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Challenge cooperative learning groups to create videos after reading articles and attempting activities. Share the videos on a site such as TeacherTube reviewed here. Use activities in the article as inspiration for Math night activities or Math Fair projects.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Numberphile - Brady Haran
Grades
7 to 12tag(s): calculators (39), negative numbers (20), number lines (32), numbers (194), pi (28), prime numbers (31), video (272)
In the Classroom
Share these videos on your interactive whiteboard or projector as wonderful math journal and discussion starters. Choose a video about an interesting number fact that can be used to hook students into a particular lesson or unit. Use the videos to show the fascinating side of mathematics. For example, 666 and its peculiarity in mathematics would be interesting to students. Make a math enrichment center for your gifted students or "hook" math-haters (or girls) by letting them select and critique their own video choice from this site. Embed a video on your class wiki and have students use the discussion tab to comment on what they like about it or were surprised to learn. Use in your blended classroom by flipping and having students view the videos at home to discuss the next day in class. (This is a great option if YouTube is blocked in your school.) Be sure to provide this link on your class website for students (and their families) to access at home. Consider having students make their own advertising videos about their favorite or "lucky" number using a tool such as and share them on a site such as TeacherTube, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Wild About Math - Wild About Math
Grades
6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): equations (153), pi (28), pythagorean theorem (33), sudoku (16)
In the Classroom
Inspire your students to find joy in math with Sol Lederman. Test your brightest mathematicians or simply add depth to your math curriculum. Use math casts for personal explanations. Encourage students to create their own library of math casts to explain current information. Keep math casts on file to use as student tutoring by yourself as teacher or even for peer tutoring. Follow blog feeds to expand and involve students in even more intriguing problems.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Mr. Honner - Math Appreciation - Patrick Honner
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): blogs (84), logic (244), photography (156), pi (28), social networking (108)
In the Classroom
Use this blog as a resource for finding new classroom activities such as the custom pi necklace mathematical Valentine. (Use the search bar near the top of the page to find these items if not found on the home page.) Have students complete activities found on the site and challenge students to create an online graphic to share using DesignBold, reviewed here. Share the site with your art teacher for collaborations in art and math classes.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Better Explained Archives - Kalid Azad
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): exponents (44), mental math (28), number sense (94), pi (28), problem solving (294), pythagorean theorem (33), square roots (20), statistics (126), vectors (23)
In the Classroom
Use this site as an anticipatory set or "activator" to introduce a unit or lesson on a projector or interactive whiteboard. Choose the appropriate topic, explore the explanation as a class, and then ask students to provide an explanation in their own words. Challenge students to create their own multimedia presentation of one of the topics presented on the site using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge tools reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Pi Day - 314 Solutions, Inc
Grades
7 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): pi (28), puzzles (204), vocabulary (314)
In the Classroom
Share this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Allow students to explore the site on their own or with a group. Use some of the ideas on the site when celebrating Pi Day in your classroom. Share the site with students as a resource for Pi research projects.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Joy of Pi - David Blatner
Grades
7 to 12Caution: there is a link to American Pi which is a spoof on the movie, American Pie, and may contain some adult themes.
tag(s): pi (28)
In the Classroom
Introduce this site on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Then have students explore this site independently or in small groups. Ask teams to report back on interesting Pi facts or information found. Include this site with your Pi Day celebrations!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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