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Ranney Celebrates Pi Day and Lower School Champions

Students and teachers within Ranney’s Math Department took part in several activities to celebrate the national holiday known as Pi Day on March 14. The day ended with several outstanding first place performances from Lower School students at an Elementary level Pi Day Math League Competition hosted by the Solomon Schechter Day School in Marlboro, New Jersey.

Guided by their advisor Jane Guadagno, with support from Doreen Fowlkes, the Lower School's Math Olympiad Team proudly represents grades three, four and five at Ranney.

Congratulations to fifth graders Jacob Field, Sathya Edamadaka, Aaryan Raval and Luke Arnone, fourth grade students Shrish Vaidyaslevan, Katie Peardon, Mason Leong and Seth Marx, and third graders Hubert Wang, Noah D’Andrea, Aidan Oster and Evan Woska on an excellent performance. Below are results from the first-ever Elementary level Math League competition:

Ranney School: Overall Performance of School, First Place
Ranney School: Fifth Grade Team, First Place
Ranney School: Fourth Grade Team, Third Place
Ranney School: Third Grade Team, First Place
Individual Recognition: Sathya Edamadaka ’19, 2nd place
Individual Recognition: Hubert Wang ’21, 2nd place

All partcipating schools in the Math League included:

Gerard Berman Day School
Golda Och Academy
Joseph Kushner Academy
Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Monmouth County          
Solomon Schechter Day School of Raritan Valley
St. Benedict
St. Denis School
St. Joseph School
St. Leo the Great School
Taylor Mills Public School
Ranney School
Oak Hill Academy

Earlier in the day, Upper School students also received numerous opportunities to celebrate Pi Day outside of the classroom – aside from learning the history of Pi and about the area and circumference of circles and sectors of circles, as well as the various angles that circles make with tangents, secants and chords. While Ms. Repoli’s Honors Geometry, Geometry, Statistics and Economics classes indulged in cookie pie after finding the area of the sector of each piece, these same classes, along with Mr. Daly’s Geometry class, also decorated “A Plate for Pi.”

Pi, or 3.14, is a mathematical constant included in the ratio of any Euclidean circle’s circumference to its diameter. A fact proven in the 19th century, Pi is an irrational number that cannot be precisely defined as the ratio of any two whole numbers. Thus, its decimal expansion has no pattern and never ends. Mathematicians, therefore, use the approximation 3.14 to indicate Pi.

After solving the first 173 numbers that make up Pi, each student creatively drew three numbers on three plates. These numbers could be decorated however each student pleased. For instance, animal lovers found themselves turning their numbers into elephants and giraffes, while sports fanatics managed to turn their numbers into such equipment as lacrosse sticks.

“Although true that a lot of the math we study in class is very concrete,” said Ms. Repoli, “celebrating Pi Day gave students a chance to think of numbers in a totally different light…in an artistic way.”
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