When working with circles it is important to recognise and be able to name different parts of the circle. A segment of a circle is an area enclosed by a chord and an arc. What is the name given to a ...

Beth Py-Lieberman - Author, The Object at Hand: Intriguing and Inspiring Stories from the Smithsonian Collections Every year, the celebration of Pi Day (March 14 is 3.14) grows more ambitious. Math ...

Editor's note: A version of this story was published in March 2011. Get ready to roll out some dough, because it's Pi Day. What's that, you ask? Think back to geometry class. Pi represents the ratio ...

Hands-on projects are great learning tools for kids, especially when they involve the word ‘secret’. I can’t think of a better way to celebrate Pi Day (March 14 or “3.14”) with kids than to help them ...

Time is a flat circle, Matthew McConaughey tells us, neglecting to explain how then we could measure time's circumference to derive its diameter, using pi. (Maybe it's best not to take the sentiment ...

The circumference is the perimeter of a circle. It is a length and so is measured in \(mm\), \(cm\), \(m\) or \(km\). An area is measured in square units: \(mm^{2 ...