March 27, 2009 - It's not often that students get to eat their school work, but Latham Ridge students got that chance on Pi Day earlier this month.

Pi Day is an increasingly popular celebration in schools throughout the world. Pi is a Greek letter and is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. With the use of computers, Pi has been calculated to more than 1 trillion digits past the decimal. However, pi is commonly known by its first three digits, 3.14, so Pi Day is celebrated each year on March 14.

At Latham Ridge, students measured round food items and ate them and made bracelets with colored beads representing the first 35 digits of pi.

Pi is an irrational number meaning it will continue infinitely without repeating. The symbol for pi was first used in 1706 by William Jones, but was popularized after it was adopted by the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler in 1737.