• andros_rex@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      Even then, I would want them to leave π in the problem itself. That would be much better for this exercise - teaching that you report “exact” values with π still in them.

      Eg, if I rewrote this problem, I would expect an answer of 1000π.

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        20 hours ago

        It makes it easy to do the math in your head without a calculator. But still , just tossing out pi=5 is not the way to go about creating these problems.