This pi page from Franz Gnaedinger shows a method similar to that of Archimedes for finding approximations of pi that can be explained without too much trouble to not very advanced math students. The method allows you to get as close an approximation for pi as you want without using anything more complicated than the Pythagorean Theorem.
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