Miss Reece's First Grade Class and Catawba Math Majors

Catawba Mathematics Majors Visit North Rowan Elementary School

Dr. Sharon Sullivan, assistant professor of mathematics, and a group of Catawba Math majors visited North Rowan Elementary School, in Spencer, North Carolina on March 14 to celebrate Pi Day. Our Catawba students helped the first graders make Pi- mobiles and other arts and crafts to celebrate the number pi. In addition to the fun arts and crafts, all students got to eat delicious apple pie!

The math majors who attended are Hannah Davis, Katie Herge, Sarah Reeves, Charles Walters and Thomas Presley.

Catawba Students Visit Overton Elementary School

Dr. Cyndi Osterhus, assistant professor of education, and a group of elementary education majors visited Overton Elementary School in Salisbury, North Carolina to celebrate Pi Day.

They had about 35 elementary students waho are part of the after-school tutoring program and 6 of our elementary majors participated. The group did an exploration using string to see the relationship of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. They found their birth dates in the first 100 decimal places of pi and did a pattern coloring using a code for each digit to see that there was no repeating pattern in the decimal places of pi.

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Pi Day celebrated at Salisbury High School

Dr. Sharon Sullivan presented a talk to the Salisbury High School Math team to celebrate Pi Day. Miss Rowe, the faculty adviosr of the math team, 8 high school students, and Carly Moore, a math major at Catawba College, participated in the event. Dr. Sullivan had the group experimenting with Buffon's needle problem. The group had a fun time calculating probabilities that were related to the number pi. Of course, pie was also served!