{"id":853,"date":"2014-03-24T22:54:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T22:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=853"},"modified":"2014-03-31T21:46:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T21:46:43","slug":"pi-day-march-14th-math-dept-vists-mei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2014\/03\/24\/pi-day-march-14th-math-dept-vists-mei\/","title":{"rendered":"Pi Day &#8211; March 14th &#8211; Math Dept. vists MEI"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_903\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-903\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2014\/03\/Charlie-Watson-at-MEI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-903\" alt=\"Charlie Watson at MEI\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2014\/03\/Charlie-Watson-at-MEI-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2014\/03\/Charlie-Watson-at-MEI-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2014\/03\/Charlie-Watson-at-MEI-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2014\/03\/Charlie-Watson-at-MEI-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2014\/03\/Charlie-Watson-at-MEI.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlie Watson at MEI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Happy Pi Day!<\/p>\n<p>The Mathematics &amp; Statistics Dept. was invited to attend MEI in Abbotsford to help celebrate Pi Day.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Milner and UFV students, Ben Tremblay &amp; Charlie Watson, shared puzzles with 2 sets of grade 4 &amp; 5 students (6 classes in all) and Susan also shared puzzles with a total of 330 grade 6-8 students, in two groups.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Affleck, Greg Schlitt, and UFV students Michael Friesen, Mark Rempel, Josha Ho, visited Math 10,11 and Calc 12 classrooms, demonstrating interesting ideas about pi and related concepts.<\/p>\n<p>MEI had over 25 teachers and TA&#8217;s participating and lots fun was had by all!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_861\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-861\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2014\/03\/at-MEI-Middle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-861 \" alt=\"at MEI Middle\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2014\/03\/at-MEI-Middle-300x178.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2014\/03\/at-MEI-Middle-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2014\/03\/at-MEI-Middle-1024x610.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2014\/03\/at-MEI-Middle-150x89.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2014\/03\/at-MEI-Middle-200x119.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2014\/03\/at-MEI-Middle.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan Milner at MEI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<address><strong>Links:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/math\/\" target=\"_blank\">ufv.ca\/math<\/a><\/address>\n<address><a href=\"http:\/\/www.piday.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">piday.org<\/a><\/address>\n<address><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meischools.com\/mei_schools\/pages\/welcome.php\" target=\"_blank\">meischools.com<\/a><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Pi Day! The Mathematics &amp; Statistics Dept. was invited to attend MEI in Abbotsford to help celebrate Pi Day. Susan Milner and UFV students, Ben Tremblay &amp; Charlie Watson, shared puzzles with 2 sets of grade 4 &amp; 5 students (6 classes in all) and Susan also shared puzzles with a total of 330 &#8230; <a title=\"Pi Day &#8211; March 14th &#8211; Math Dept. vists MEI\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2014\/03\/24\/pi-day-march-14th-math-dept-vists-mei\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,5,58],"tags":[74,107],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-mathstats","category-news","tag-math","tag-pi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}