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Here is a little something extra for you NERDS. my kids always attended a Math summer camp for enrichment purposes when they were little, called MathTree. The woman who ran it was called Solving Salvo. Everyone had to have a MATH NAME and that was her's. There was Danielle Divisor, Mary Multiplier, Sammy substractor etc. Anyway, i am still on her email list and looky at what i just got in the mail from her today in honor of PI DAY:

Continuing our newsletter series called, "Have you ever met a number you didn't like?," today, 3/14, we're featuring the number π and we're introducing a new poetic form, the piku. Piku is a hybrid of pi and haiku. It combines the form of a haiku poem with the further constraint that the number of letters in the words of the poem is determined by the digits of pi. Traditionally, a haiku has seventeen syllables split into three lines, the first with five syllables, the second with seven syllables, the last with five syllables again. The digits of pi, when written out in decimal form, determine the number of letters in the words of the poem.

Here is my first piku:
For a time a child
Meditates on family
Later she finds strength