SA L'Avenue Students Explore the Fun Side of Mathematics During Math Pi Day

A day dedicated to math sounds like a dream for those who love the subject, but what about for those who don’t? Well, it sounds like a long day right? However, Sampoerna Academy L’Avenue has made Math Pi Day an ‘incredibly high-energy’ event for all students to enjoy. On April 2nd, students got to experience a day filled with the endless possibilities of mathematics.

 Math Pi Day was created to honour the mathematical constant ‘pi’ and the true fascination behind it. To celebrate this historic event, people all over the world eat pies, recite the infinite digits and enjoy mathematical events. But for Sampoerna Academy L’Avenue, this tradition has been modified by allowing students to enjoy a variety of different activities from drawing to pie-eating contests.

In ELC and Primary, there was dressing up, colour challenges and fun crafts. An example was a drawing activity where students were able to draw their hopes for math and how they visualised it. Liquica (5C) shared that Math Pi Day was educational because it was ‘simple and easy’ and got her to ‘explore ideas’ as she drew a tree with apples that had math symbols on them. This enjoyable activity allowed younger students to challenge their creativity and build a more thrilling way of expressing their fascination towards mathematics.

 Moving onto the Secondary, they had a game-packed day enjoying math in various ways. To begin the day, there was a math song presentation including a performance of a jazz song called ‘What a Calculated World’. This built a more energetic atmosphere to the crowd as they got to experience another way of enjoying the celebration of math. Booths were designed by students of grade 9 with grade 7-8 experiencing their creative games. For example, there were booths called Unlock the Code, Magic Beads, Numbers Slide and more. Abraham (8C) commented that the coding booth was his favourite, as it made math more ‘engaging and entertaining’. 

A crowd-favourite event was the pie-eating contest where contestants had to eat as many pies as possible in 5 minutes. The egg tarts had a delicate, crumbly crust, which meant that they couldn’t just be shoved in, but they had to manage a crust-to-custard ratio to ensure that they wouldn’t choke. Emilio (8C), who participated in the contest, quoted that he “loved” eating food, adding to the excitement of the event and showing that the competition appealed to more than just math-lovers. The contest was won by Bob (9B).

Jason (9A) shared that ‘it takes the subject out of the classroom’ and he was able to ‘see it applied in real-time through these booths’. This made mathematics feel ‘tactile, collaborative, and approachable that day’ which clearly shows the importance of displaying subjects outside of a formal classroom setting and approaching it in a creative aspect.

Across grades, Math Pi Day was able to carry out the idea that math can be used in numerous activities as a form of entertainment and educational purposes. Math comes in different forms and this was shown through a joyous, thrilling day for students throughout the school to enjoy.