Every kid in school knows that “pi are squared,” but Monroe Middle School math students will prove to the world on Monday and Tuesday, March 14 and 15, that “pi are ‘round,” as in ringing ‘round the school.

          On Monday, 3/14 – Pi Day, 3.14 get it? – math students in the classrooms of Mrs. Katie Oberdorf and Mr. Kevin Pilgrim will report to the Monroe Middle School auditorium during their class times to make and connect rings of Pi digits, in order – as many as 4,000 digits.  When they go home at the end of the day, a huge chain of Pi digits will be connected.  Students will be preparing the rings throughout the day but the largest number of students participating at one time will be from the start of school until about 9:45 a.m.

          On Tuesday morning, March 15, the math students again will report to the auditorium, this time to carry the connected Pi digits outside and encircle the school, over a four city-block area.  They are scheduled to be outside starting at 8:30 a.m. and the encirclement could take as long as 30 minutes.