Noisemaker Distributed on Pi Day, March 14, 2015
date: label: date made
content: 2015
notes: label: Description
content: Many Americans now write dates in numerical form, with the first digits for the month, the second for the day of the month, and the third for the year. Hence 3/14/15 represents March 14, 2015. When dates are written in this manner, the digits can be compared to the irrational number pi, the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle. This number is roughly 3, more precisely 3.14, and more precisely still 3.1415926.
label: Description
content: Since at least 1988, some mathematics educators in the United States have celebrated March 14 as Pi Day. Celebrations were especially intense in 2015, because 3.1415 includes digits of the year as well as the month and day. This noisemaker was sounded at the History and Pedagogy of Mathematics Meeting in Washington, DC, at 9:26 on March 14, 2015.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collected-for-the-Museum
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.3169.03
label: nonaccession number
content: 2015.3169
label: catalog number
content: 2015.3169.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: noisemaker
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (mouthpiece material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (extension material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 cm x 8.5 cm x 3 cm; 25/32 in x 3 11/32 in x 1 3/16 in