Two math celebrations are coming:
Pi Day and World Maths Day
Pi Day
Pi Day is an annual celebration commemorating the mathematical constant π (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14 since 3, 1, and 4 are the three most significant digits of π in the decimal form.
Here are some websites students will enjoy to enrich the day (click for updates on this list):
- Calculating Pi with Real Pies–crazy video, but lots of views
- Discovering Pi with Google Sheets
- Find your Pi Day--where is your birthday in the endless numbers of Pi? Created by Wolfram
- Miles of Pi–Numberphile; video
- Music created with Pi — addictive song
- Pi Day Activities with Google Sheets
- Pi Day Math Art–Pi Skyline
- Pi Day PE activities
- Pi Day WebQuest
- Pi Poems
- Pi Song — video; cute
World Maths Day
The first World Maths Day was held on March 14, 2007 (also Pi Day), and this year is March 25, 2026 It is one of the world’s largest global educational events aimed at lifting numeracy standards in a fun and meaningful way. Why not celebrate with your own fun maths teaching – take a look at our lovely supporting resources! Find out more at the World Maths Day Website
The basics: It is a free, fun, online competition with up to 4 million students world-wide participating. The competition measures speed in arithmetic and numeracy skills on the Live Mathletics platform and runs for 48 hours and is open to all schools around the world. Students compete online with other students and top scores are displayed on a live ‘Hall of Fame’.
Here are a few great and fun Math websites to build the joy of math (click for updates on this list):
- 99 Math
- Alien Addition
- Battlesheets!
- Digipuzzle–math puzzles
- Interactivate — games for HS math that can be used as assessments
- Karate Math Dojo
- Khan Academy
- Legends of Learning
- Math Chimp–math games divided by grade
- Math for K
- Math Games
- Math Invaders
- Math Playground–lots of math and physics games; search by grade level or subject or category
- Math problems organized by grade
Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work:
https://forms.aweber.com/form/07/1910174607.htm
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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.
