That’s right: every week we are going to celebrate some small holiday! We want you to join us in celebrating every week – because really, everyone needs a little more happiness in their lives.
Join us in celebrating the holiday just yourself, and take some small quiet time to enjoy it. Or, take our book and program ideas, and celebrate in a larger way in your library. Take a small, goofy opportunity to have a little more fun today! (We celebrate you in doing this!)
This is a fun day, and it’s a day to have some math celebrations. While I’ll say that math is not my strong suit, I am quite good at eating pie! If you also enjoy math, pie, or both things – this is your day to have some celebratory fun. And just in case you aren’t feeling quick on the math today, remember that the number Pi starts with 3.14159265359, so on March 14 we all celebrate it by eating pie. If you do nothing else today, enjoy a nice chicken pot pie, or a slice of chocolate silk, or a nice fruit pie. Make yourself happy today!
Try a few books today:
- Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World, by Matt Parker
- The Book On Pie: Everything You Need to Know to Bake Perfect Pies, by Erin Jeanne McDowell
- Easy as Pie: The Essential Pie Cookbook for Every Season and Reason, by Saura Madani
- Elegant Pie: Transform Your Favorite Pies into Works of Art, by Karin Pfeiff-Boschek
- Raspberry Pi Cookbook: Software and Hardware Problems and Solutions, by Simon Monk
- Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors, by Matt Parker
You can try a few pie, and pi, related programs:
- set out a variety of different kinds of round things and measure the diameter and circumference, divide the circumference by the diameter , so patrons can all prove (again!) that it will be pi (3.14)
- give participants paper and writing utensils, and let them start writing the numbers of pi they remember; the people who can come up with the most of correct numbers win a pi (pie) related prizes (maybe everyone else can have small hand pies to celebrate)
- have a math-related joke-telling contest
Join us in celebrating the holiday just yourself, and take some small quiet time to enjoy it. Or, take our book and program ideas, and celebrate in a larger way in your library. Take a small, goofy opportunity to have a little more fun today!