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Sharing a Slice of Pie: A Pi (π) Day Celebration
Start Date: 3/14/2023Start Time: 2:00 PM
End Date: 3/14/2023End Time: 3:00 PM

Event Description:
Celebrate Pi Day: March 14 @ 1.59 PM (3.14159) with a demonstration for determining pi and making pie!

Organized by OAA - CUNY Innovative Teaching Academy

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All students, faculty, and staff are welcome! You don't need to be a mathematician or a pastry chef to enjoy this fun pi/pie celebration!

Participants will have an opportunity to share their favorite pi/pie activity or story and how this motivated learning in the classroom.

Mathematics and pastry chef faculty will join efforts in this interdisciplinary presentation to celebrate Pi Day. The presenters will share fun facts about pi and pie with the goal of motivating learning and sharing classroom activities. The participants will get some pie-making tips, and have the opportunity to try a hands-on activity and to share their favorite pi/pie activity or story. All are welcome!

There will be a hands-on activity to figure out the value of π. If you would like to participate in the activity (or you could just watch!), you will need to prepare the following materials (but feel free to just come, watch and learn!)

* An object with a round surface (lid, cup, plate, bottle, etc.).
* A piece of string for measuring. The string needs to be long enough to wrap around the round surface.
* A ruler or a measuring tape. This can be in either inches or centimeters.

Dr. Sandie Han is a Professor of Mathematics at New York City College of Technology and the 2022-2023 Leadership Fellow in the CUNY Office of Undergraduate Studies, Academic Programs & Policy (OUSAP) in the role of Assistant Dean for Academic Technology & Pedagogy. At City Tech she was the mathematics department chair from 2015–2021. Dr. Han is passionate about increasing engagement and participation in STEM, particularly to empower woman and minority faculty and students. She has a strong record of teaching and pedagogical work in self-regulated learning, peer-led team learning, interdisciplinary learning, project-based learning, inquiry-based learning, learning assessment, and self-efficacy analysis. Her work on Self-Regulated Learning and Mathematics Self-efficacy won the 2013 CUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mathematics Instructions.

Joanne Lewin-Jacus
is an Instructor currently teaching Beginning Baking and Pastry Arts at New York City College of Technology. Her passion for the food service industry began when she worked in all facets of the family's off-premise catering business. Professor Jacus earned an Associates degree at the Culinary Institute of America, and completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication and Media suma cum laude at CUNY School of Professional Studies. Joanne worked for Hyatt Corporation before and after working in kitchens in Switzerland and Germany. Other baking and pastry experiences include co-owning and managing a retail/wholesale pastry shop, research and new product development, airline desserts, bakery production manager for a Belgian company and in an Atlantic City hotel.
 

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