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Easy Peasy Pi Day: All you need is Yarn!

Need a quick and easy Pi Day activity for your second or third grade elementary students? Try this idea. All you need is yarn!

Teachers can use this simple hands-on classroom activity during math, science, or just as a fun quick project to celebrate Pi Day on 3.14. A perfect (LOW PREP) activity for learning how Pi relates to circumference and diameter.

A quick and easy Pi Day activity for elementary students! All you need is yarn. Teachers can use this simple hands-on classroom activity during math, science, or just as a fun quick project to celebrate 3.14 (Pi Day!). A perfect {LOW PREP} activity for learning about how Pi relates to circumference & diameter. This activity will work well in any 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade classroom. #education #pi #piday #math

Pi Day Yarn Activity Instructions:

Materials: All you need is yarn, scissors, and round things. Every classroom has those right?!

#1. Have students choose a round object.

A quick and easy Pi Day activity for elementary students! All you need is yarn. Teachers can use this simple hands-on classroom activity during math, science, or just as a fun quick project to celebrate 3.14 (Pi Day!). A perfect {LOW PREP} activity for learning about how Pi relates to circumference & diameter. This activity will work well in any 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade classroom. #education #pi #piday #math

#2. Have students wrap the yarn around the circumference of the round object and cut the yarn to show one measurement around their object.

A quick and easy Pi Day activity for elementary students! All you need is yarn. Teachers can use this simple hands-on classroom activity during math, science, or just as a fun quick project to celebrate 3.14 (Pi Day!). A perfect {LOW PREP} activity for learning about how Pi relates to circumference & diameter. This activity will work well in any 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade classroom. #education #pi #piday #math

#3. Now students will take this long piece of yarn and see how many times they can measure the diameter of their circle. They will cut a piece of yarn for every diameter they measure.

A quick and easy Pi Day activity for elementary students! All you need is yarn. Teachers can use this simple hands-on classroom activity during math, science, or just as a fun quick project to celebrate 3.14 (Pi Day!). A perfect {LOW PREP} activity for learning about how Pi relates to circumference & diameter. This activity will work well in any 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade classroom. #education #pi #piday #math

If students do this correctly they should end up with 3 diameter yarn pieces plus an itty little left over piece or 3.14 diameters (Pi!)

A quick and easy Pi Day activity for elementary students! All you need is yarn. Teachers can use this simple hands-on classroom activity during math, science, or just as a fun quick project to celebrate 3.14 (Pi Day!). A perfect {LOW PREP} activity for learning about how Pi relates to circumference & diameter. This activity will work well in any 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade classroom. #education #pi #piday #math

Yarn, scissors, round things, DONE!

Fun, memorable, and quick – my kind of Pi Day activity!

 

Need more math activities for March?

There are now monthly math challenge sets for every month of the school year!  The March Math Challenges & Brainteasers Pack includes 26 math problems with spring and March holiday themes like: Pi Day, St. Patrick’s Day, rainbows, March Madness basketball, leprechauns, clovers, and Read Across America.

Did you try out the yarn activity? Tell me all about it in the comments!

 
 

Happy Pi Day Super Teacher,

 

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  1. Anonymous says:

    This activity is so awesome. The kids will be able to understand it easily. A big thank you!!

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