Well, not quite the astute answer I was anticipating from a developing html expert, and being a former middle school teacher I certainly couldn\u2019t let her terseness go. \u00a0So I dug a little deeper with a comparable crafty response, “So\u2026why is it cool?”<\/p>\n Apparently I hadn\u2019t learned my lesson the first time, and I again expected an articulate explanation that included words like information fluency and critical thinking. “Well, I\u2019m in group #4, and 4 is my favorite number.”<\/p>\n Seriously? That was it?<\/p>\n I watched the sweat from camp facilitators as they poured their hearts and souls into planning, creating, and executing the most hands-on, engaging brain jam activities possible for 80 code campers, and she thought it was cool because she was in group #4, which happened to be her favorite number?<\/p>\n Okay, I thought. Think about it\u2026 back to my middle school self. \u00a0I think I had orange and black braces elastics. \u00a0I also had a favorite color, song, food, word, and yes, number; 26. \u00a0I had a baseball idol thing for Wade Boggs. \u00a0But as my interests changed, so did my favorites, and fast forward to my teaching days and I will quickly tell you that my favorite number was (is!) Pi. \u00a0Oh so many teaching lessons, opportunities, and fun facts revolve around Pi; and I\u2019m not alone, just look here<\/a>. Pi Day was a favorite in my classes; we went all out.<\/p>\n Of course I asked Hannah why then was 4 her favorite number. \u00a0This time I was ready for the anticipated, \u2018well it is\u2019 response. \u00a0Instead I got, “All lists of numbers lead back to four. Think about it Aunt Meredith. 25, 10, 3, 5, 4. \u00a0Or 123, 21, 9, 4.” \u00a0It took me a bit to figure out this riddle, but the best part was that she had a pretty cool reason why 4 was her favorite.<\/p>\n Do you have a favorite number? \u00a0Do your students have favorite numbers? \u00a0Why are they your\/their favorites?<\/strong> \u00a0You might just be surprised to hear the answers. \u00a0And if the opportunity presents, celebrate those numbers \u2013 I recommend with some Pi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pi, Code Camp and other irrational things<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[25,58,183],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transferable-skills","tag-code-camp","tag-math","tag-pi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"on](\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/meredith_codecamp-283x300.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nRemember your (square) roots<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Pies, pizzas, songs, skits, tattoos, you name it, I Pi-ed it. \u00a0And mid-summer, my students were sure to get the Happy Pi Approximation Day email on the 22nd of July. Look again at this infographic<\/a>; it reads, \u201cPi can never be fully known.\u201d \u00a0Wow. \u00a0Can NEVER be fully known?! \u00a0There aren\u2019t too many things that deserve such a bold statement, and this awesome number of Pi does just that.<\/p>\nThe direction the conversations take can never be fully known<\/h3>\n