Pi day at HAFTR Middle School

HAFTR Middle School celebrated one of our most exciting days of the year — Pi Approximation Day! Sixth graders measured the circumference and diameters of black-and-white cookies.

They divided their cookie’s circumference by diameter to get a close approximation for Pi. Seventh graders made construction paper chains representing the digits of Pi. Eighth graders played a Kahoot testing their knowledge of Pi facts. (And, of course, everyone ate pie.)

Winners in HAFTR’s Pi reciting contest were Jared Pollack (142 digits), Mathew Vaysman (300 digits), and Kayla Fauziev (306 digits); the first place parent Pi reciter was Dan Kaufman with 230 digits!

Winning math team explores solutions

HAFTR Middle School’s amazing math team, led by Math Chair Tamara Farber, has been preparing all year for the Math Olympiads, a series of challenging math contests that explore mathematical concepts while developing flexibility in solving non-routine problems with multiple solution paths.

The math team has taken two math contests thus far. In the first competition, HAFTR’s top top scorers were Sasha Bokor, Kayla Fauziev and Quinn Oliner. In the second contest, the top three scorers were Atara Smulevitz, Quinn Oliner and Sasha Bokor. Sasha Bokor got a perfect score in the second competition.