Growing up, many students surely dreamed of nothing more than to throw a pie in their teacher’s face.

While that wasn’t necessarily a dream of Wareham High School sophomore Spencer Boyer, he was able to make that a reality last Monday.

It was a pie-themed affair, as Boyer won the honor of pieing his teacher, Cathleen Marchessault, in the face, by winning his math class’s contest for Pi Day by reciting the first 104 digits of Pi.

Pi Day celebrates the mathematical constant Pi, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. Pi is approximated as 3.14, hence the March 14 celebration, but it’s actually a never ending number that doesn’t  settle into any numerical pattern. That’s what makes Boyer’s accomplishment all the more impressive.

Boyer had all of two days to study for the big Pi Day contest, to see who could recite the most digits of Pi. He said his method was to break down the number into three digit intervals.

“I took the paper of pi digits then divided them into hundreds,” he said.

He said there were a few close calls when reciting all the numbers, but ultimately he reached his goal of remembering at least100.

Other students were nearly as successful too. The second place student was able to recite Pi out to 102 digits.

“It was a way to recognize really strong students in a way you wouldn’t get to see in a normal class,” Marchesseault said.

She said some of the school’s math teachers wanted to make this year’s Pi Day special as the date, 3/14/15, represents the first five digits of Pi.

In addition to putting a pie in his teacher’s face, Boyer’s name was put on a plaque that will be displayed in the awards hallway of the High School.

“I was surprised,” he said. “It’s different. I didn’t expect a huge award like that.”

As a sophomore Boyer will have a chance to defend his title next year and go for an even bigger piece of the Pi.