{"id":4525,"date":"2023-03-13T17:49:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T17:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/?p=4525"},"modified":"2023-03-13T18:24:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T18:24:29","slug":"pi-daypi-day-at-the-rlb-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2023\/03\/13\/pi-daypi-day-at-the-rlb-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Pi Day at the RLB Library"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><b>The RLB Library will celebrate Pi Day on March 14 at 3:14 p.m.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Please join us in the Math &amp; Statistics Center BL #201 (second floor of the RLB Library).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In honor of Pi Day. Enjoy pie, swag, and raffle giveaways. We\u2019d love\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to introduce you to our space and services and share how\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">our tutors help make math and statistics as easy as pie!\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>What&#8217;s Pi Day?\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0On March 14 (or 3\/14 in U.S. date format) in 1988, a physicist at the San Francisco Exploratorium held what is thought to be the first official Pi Day celebration, which smartly included the consumption of fruit pies. Math teachers quickly realized the potential benefits of teaching students about pi while they ate pie, and it all caught on so much that in 2009, the U.S. Congress officially declared March 14 National Pi Day.<\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4575\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/2023\/03\/Pi-Day-3-1-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0Here\u2019s how to learn more about Pi Day. <a href=\"https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/news\/350\/10-ways-to-celebrate-pi-day-with-nasa-on-march-14\/\">Link\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RLB Library will celebrate Pi Day on March 14 at 3:14 p.m.\u00a0 Please join us in the Math &amp; Statistics Center BL #201 (second floor of the RLB Library).\u00a0\u00a0In honor of Pi Day. Enjoy pie, swag, and raffle giveaways. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2023\/03\/13\/pi-daypi-day-at-the-rlb-library\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Pi Day at the RLB Library<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4525"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4581,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions\/4581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}