Pi Day Crossword Puzzle By: Addisyn Miller, Cailyn Fowlkes, Makenna Mumbower, and Sesley Tedeschi

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Across
  1. 2. Pi is the the 16th letter of the _____ alphabet just as p is the 16th letter in our alphabet.
  2. 3. The symbol for pi has been regularly used for the past _________ years.
  3. 5. Pi Day is celebrated on _______ 14th every year. It represents 3.14, the value of pi.
  4. 8. William ______ calculated the first 707 digits of pi. He made a mistake after the 527th place and all of the following digits were wrong.
  5. 9. Pi is mentioned in this religious book.
  6. 11. _______ _______ was born on Pi Day: March 14, 1879.
  7. 13. A circle has a 22 inch radius. Use 3.14 to solve. Round to the nearest inch. What is the circumference?
  8. 14. You can never find the true circumference or ______ of a circle because you can never find the true value of pi.
  9. 15. The first Pi Day celebration was organized by Physicist Larry ______.
Down
  1. 1. A pizza has a 10 inch diameter. Use 22/7 to solve. Round to the nearest square inch. What is the area?
  2. 4. The radius of a table is 12 inches. Use 3.14 to solve. Round to the nearest square inch. What is the area?
  3. 6. _________ was the first person who intensely studied about pi in ancient times.
  4. 7. _______ da Vinci and artist Albrecht Durer both briefly worked on "squaring the circle" or approximating pi.
  5. 10. A cake has an 8 inch diameter. Use 22/7 to solve. Round to the nearest inch. What is the circumference?
  6. 12. In 2005, Lu Chao from _____ set a world record by memorizing the first 67,980 digits of pi.