It's Pi Day! Explore NASA Puzzlers, Posters and Pi

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Title: It's Pi Day! Here's How to Celebrate With NASA

Celebrate Pi Day With NASA

It's Pi Day: Your annual excuse to eat pie in the name of math and make the rounds with your best food- and word-based puns. At NASA, we couldn't explore Earth and space or do science without this stellar number. You can do the math for yourself in our NASA Pi Day Challenge, which features real problems faced by space explorers. Math not your thing? Read about all the ways we use pi at NASA and how many decimals of the neverending number we need for our most exacting calculations. Plus, explore pi lessons and resources for educators. It's all below!

The NASA Pi Day Challenge – Can you use pi to solve these stellar puzzlers faced by NASA scientists and engineers? Check it out – plus, download the free poster! Answers to the 2020 challenge will land on Monday, March 16.

Feature: 18 Ways NASA Uses Pi – Whether it's sending spacecraft to other planets, driving rovers on Mars, finding out what planets are made of or how deep alien oceans are, pi takes us far at NASA. Find out how pi helps us explore space.

Blog: How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need? – Though there are those who have memorized more than 70,000 digits of pi, JPL engineer Marc Rayman explains why you really only need a tiny fraction of that for even the highest-accuracy calculations at NASA.

Feature: 10 Things About Pi Day and How to Celebrate with NASA – Find out what makes pi so special, how it’s used to explore space and how you can join the celebration with resources from NASA.

Share: Pi Day – What’s Going ‘Round – Tell us what you’re up to this Pi Day and share your stories and photos with NASA. And join the conversation with @NASAJPL_Edu on Twitter using the hashtag #NASAPiDayChallenge

Resources for Educators

Teachable Moment – Learn about the NASA Pi Day Challenge, read about the science behind the challenge and find resources for bringing Pi Day into the classroom.

Lessons: Pi Day – Find everything you need to bring the NASA Pi Day Challenge into the classroom, including free posters and handouts available to download.