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They sparked a lot of great questions and conversations with my students, other students, and other teachers in the building. I blogged about some of these conversations here.
In case anyone may be interested, I thought I'd share the file I used. To create the posters, all I did was google the first 1,000 digits of pi, which I copied and pasted into a Word document. I enlarged them until each digit filled a page and I added the ellipsis at the end of the document.
After determining that I could fit a 7 by 14 array of digits on the wall, I needed to print the first 97 pages of the document, plus page 1,003 for the ellipsis. I knew that I wanted each digit to be a different color, so I arranged my colored paper on the floor like this.
I used my Word document of poster pages to determine the pattern of numbers where I would stop - so I looked at pages 93-97 to know that I was ending with the digits 3, 4, 2, 1, 1. Then I went back to the webpage showing the digits of pi (rather than clicking through each page of my document) to start arranging the colored papers in order. I inserted white pages for the decimal point and the ellipsis. By having the colored paper in order of the digits of pi, I was able to simply put that stack of paper in the printer and print pages 1-97 and page 1,003 of my document.
Here are a few more printing tips:
- Make sure you're set to print single-sided.
- Print a custom selection of pages using the hyphen to include the pages of digits you want to print and a comma to also list the ellipsis page (p. 1003).
- Be sure that you know if your printer starts printing with the first page of a selection and prints forward through the selection or if your printer starts with the last page of a selection and moves backward through the selection (if you don't know, print a short selection on scrap paper to find out).
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You'll need the free font Comic Zine for the Word document to display correctly (or feel free to change the font to something else - you may also have to adjust the page margins and font size if you do that).
View/Download: First 1000 Digits of Pi Posters
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