A response to the question: How is the concept of Pi taught?
Back to Index of Elementary ThoughtsI am a graduate student working on a project for my Math Methods class. I am looking for information on how the concept of pi is taught– specifically what grade it’s introduced, what prior knowledge/concepts students must understand (i.e. irrational #s), what the impact is on follow-on mathematics if the concept of pi is not learned (geometry, trigonometry, physics). Basically, I’m looking for sort of a timeline on how pi is taught and how it fits into the overall K-12 math curriculum. I’ve checked just about every website on pi there is, but most focus on how it is calculated and its history. I need information from an educator’s perspective. Any resources you can pass my way will help.Thanks, Wendy————-Dear Wendy,Here is a timely activity (because we are in the process of completing it right now in my fifth grade classroom) about the relationship between the circumference and diameter…I read to my students before lunch each day, and ther
Back to Index of Elementary Thoughts I am a graduate student working on a project for my Math Methods class. I am looking for information on how the concept of pi is taught– specifically what grade it’s introduced, what prior knowledge/concepts students must understand (i.e. irrational #s), what the impact is on follow-on mathematics if the concept of pi is not learned (geometry, trigonometry, physics). Basically, I’m looking for sort of a timeline on how pi is taught and how it fits into the overall K-12 math curriculum. I’ve checked just about every website on pi there is, but most focus on how it is calculated and its history. I need information from an educator’s perspective. Any resources you can pass my way will help. Thanks, Wendy ————- Dear Wendy, Here is a timely activity (because we are in the process of completing it right now in my fifth grade classroom) about the relationship between the circumference and diameter… I read to my students before lunch each day, an
