Celebrate National Pi Day at 3.14.15 9:26:53 a.m.

Today is National Pi Day.

At 9:26:53 a.m. take a photo and submit it to Framingham Patch to celebrate the day.

A couple of the middle schools in Framingham will be doing the same throughout town, thanks to Walsh Middle School educator Sarah Guernsey.

The Walsh math teacher asked her students to take selfies on 3.14, and if possible, capture the first 10 digits of Pi - 3.141592653 today. This mathematical number will not happen again in time for another 100 years.

McAuliffe Charter School students are also capturing Pi Day with photos.

In 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives declared March 14 (3.14) to be National Pi Day, to celebrate the importance of math, science, and education in our lives, while sparking interest in learning.

Pi is a mathematical constant, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.

Many believe Pi to be the most intriguing number in all of mathematics.

Being an irrational number, π cannot be expressed exactly as a common fraction,so its decimal representation never ends and never settles into a permanent repeating pattern.

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Even if you miss 9:26:53 a.m., still take a photo today on 3.14 - National Pi Day - and submit to Framingham Patch!

Editor’s Note: A slideshow of photos will run next week, after the schools send the photos to Framingham Patch. Readers can post their photos under the Framingham Patch Facebook post or in the comment section of this report.