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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Saturday is Pi day, Pi in the sky day!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">To download the problem set and view the activity details,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">including the Common Core standards addressed, visit:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/piday2015">http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/piday2015</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/index.cfm?page=430&utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NASAJPL&utm_content=teach20150310"><span style="text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="640" id="_x0000_i1026" src="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/images/640x350/piday2015-640.jpg" alt="Teach - Activities - Pi in the Sky 2 Infographic and Math Challenge"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Celebrate the 'Pi Day of the Century'
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</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">with JPL Education</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">It's the Pi Day of the century, 3.1415 (March 14, 2015), and the Education Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has crafted another stellar math challenge to show students of all ages how
NASA scientists and engineers use the mathematical constant pi. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">The 2015 problem set -- available as a web infographic and printable handouts -- features four real-world, NASA math problems for students in grades 4 through 11, including: calculating the dizzying
number of times a Mars rover's wheels have rotated in 11 years; finding the number of images it will take the Dawn spacecraft to map the entire surface of the dwarf planet Ceres (the first dwarf planet to be explored); learning the potential volume of water
on Jupiter's moon Europa; and discovering what fraction of a radio beam from our most distant spacecraft reaches Earth.
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<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">The word problems, which were crafted by NASA/JPL education specialists with the help of scientists and engineers, give students insight into the real calculations space explorers use every day
and a chance to see some of the real-world applications of the math they're learning in school.
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<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">To download the problem set and view the activity details, including the Common Core standards addressed, visit:</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333"><a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/piday2015?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NASAJPL&utm_content=teach20150310">
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/piday2015 </a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">As part of its Pi Day celebration, JPL Education is inviting students and teachers, as well as members of the public, to share their answers to this year's Pi Day challenge on Twitter by tweeting
to <a href="http://twitter.com/NASAJPL_Edu">@NASAJPL_Edu</a> with the hashtag #PiDay.
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Answers will be revealed on Monday, March 16, with a companion infographic that walks students through the steps needed to find a solution to each problem.
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<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">To view last year's -- and the first ever -- "Pi in the Sky" infographic and math challenge, visit:
<a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/index.cfm?page=398&utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NASAJPL&utm_content=teach20150310">
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/index.cfm?page=398</a>. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">For more educational infographics, visit:
<a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NASAJPL&utm_content=teach20150310">
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/</a>. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">The JPL Education Office provides formal and informal educators, parents and students with NASA science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) content, including resources, classroom activities
and internship opportunities. To learn more, visit the JPL Education homepage at:
<a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NASAJPL&utm_content=teach20150310">
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Get latest updates from the JPL Education Office by following us on Twitter
<a href="http://twitter.com/NASAJPL_Edu">@NASAJPL_Edu</a>, Facebook at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NASAJPLStudents">
https://www.facebook.com/NASAJPLStudents</a>, Instagram at <a href="http://www.instagram.com/NASAJPL_Edu">
http://www.instagram.com/NASAJPL_Edu</a> and Vine at <a href="http://www.vine.co/NASAJPL_Edu">
http://www.vine.co/NASAJPL_Edu </a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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