{"id":2980,"date":"2015-03-14T08:51:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T13:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/?p=2980"},"modified":"2026-03-12T08:03:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:03:48","slug":"pi-day-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/2015\/03\/pi-day-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Pi Day Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Today is the Pi Day of the Century!<a href=\"http:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pi-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2982 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pi-image-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"pi image\" width=\"177\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Here are some great ways to celebrate Pi with your child<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Build a tower using only round things (circles, spheres, cylinders, cones&#8230;) and enter it in the Noggin Builders Pi Day Challenge on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nogginbuilders\">Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Read a book about Pi like <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sir Cumference<\/span> by Cindy Neuschwander or <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Librarian Who Measured the Earth<\/span> by Kathy Lasky<\/li>\n<li>Explore the size of Pi\n<ul>\n<li>Measure a piece of string that is 3.14 units in length (it doesn&#8217;t matter if you measure in inches, centimeters, feet or any other type of measurement)<\/li>\n<li>Bend it into a loop and measure it to explore that the diameter (length across the center of the circle) is 1 unit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Celebrate circles for younger children\n<ul>\n<li>Make a collage of only circles<\/li>\n<li>Go on a circle hunt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Find fun facts about Pi, like\n<ul>\n<li>Pi has an infinite number of digits<\/li>\n<li>Mathematicians around the world use super computers to calculate as many digits as they can. So far the record is about 10 trillion digits!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Use coupon code piday31415 for $31.41 off any Noggin Builders class or camp over $60<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pi Day of the Century<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nb-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2980"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5351,"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions\/5351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nogginbuilders.com\/NBwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}