Pi Day maths in year 6:

On the 14th March, we joined the global celebration of Pi day. This included a fantastic model from Mr Walker showing how circumferences can be calculated when the radius (or diameter) of a circle is known. The children then had their own opportunity to practically work this out for their own circle using string and metre rulers. We also watched a recent world record attempt to break a long-standing record (set by the mathematician Shanks in 1873) to calculate pi to over 707 decimal places.