Pencil and Paper Games is devoted to games you can play with nothing more than a pencil and a piece of paper. These games are ideal for entertaining children and adults on rainy days or dark evenings, at home or on holiday.
Get the party started with these brand-new Independence Day crafts and recipes.
This six-pack of vocabulary activities from SuperKids includes 1000 SAT flashcards, a word-of-the-day by grade level, Hangman (with several dozen topical vocabulary lists), and the timed Mumbo Jumbo game ( similar to a one-person Scrabble).
April foolery will soon be upon us. To celebrate, this week's picks include family-friendly prank ideas, along with an historical look at famous hoaxes of yesteryear.
The Museum of Hoaxes has compiled two lists for April Fools' Day. The first is the Top 100 April Fools' Day Hoaxes of all time...
The Greek letter pi represents the mathematical constant that equals a circle's circumference divided by its diameter.
Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Regardless of the size of the circle, pi is always the same irrational number: approximately 3.14.
If you can't make it to San Francisco's Exploratorium for the twentieth anniversary of the first Pi Day, you'll find lots here to inspire your own celebration.
"For the sake of usefulness people often need to approximate pi. For many purposes you can use 3.14159, which is really pretty good, but if you want a better approximation you can use a computer to get it."
Mr. Herte, a math teacher at Carle Place High School, in Carle Place, NY, says Pi Day "gives us the perfect springboard to allow our students to have fun while investigating mathematics concepts, being creative, and even a little silly."
Eve Andersson is a Google engineer with a soft spot for pi. Her homage to pi includes a Pi Trivia Game consisting of twenty-five randomly chosen questions...
"Besides being a center for teaching ideas and resources, we'll try to be your first stop for funny, smart, tongue-in-cheek tributes to the number pi."
