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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 2 Circles and Circumference

For Students 9th - 10th
Use Glencoe's Math Course 2 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of circles and circumference. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes Measuring Around

For Students 5th - 7th
Learners complete an online quiz that tests them on circumference and perimeter. Hints and solutions are included.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Circumference

For Students 6th - 8th
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of how to find the circumference of a circle. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Far Does the Robot Go?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice their multiplication skills using robots with wheels built from LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT kits. They brainstorm distance travelled by the robots without physically measuring distance and then apply their math skills to...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Robot Wheels!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students solidify their understanding of the terms "circumference" and "rotation" through the use of LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robotics components. They measure the circumference of robot wheels to determine how far the robot can travel during...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Using Geometric Concepts and Properties to Solve Problems

For Students 6th - 8th
Given pictorial representations, the student will use geometric concepts and properties to solve problems from art and architecture.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Circle Exercises

For Students 9th - 10th
Twenty-five problems cover various circle activities. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click the "View Solution" button to check each step of your...
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Lesson Plan
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: The Cylinder Problem: High School Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Using an engaging approach, this lesson requires students to record the volume of cylinders as a function of the radius. Students will construct and measure the volume of several cylinders and then begin comparing these shapes.
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Cuemath

Cuemath: Circles

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Explore everything about circles. Learn various parts of a circle like a diameter, radius, circumference, circles chord, tangent circles, major arc, segment, sector, and discover other interesting aspects of it. Try your hand at solving...
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Handout
Cuemath

Cuemath: Area of a Circle

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This mini-lesson explores the area of a circle. Provides a definition, examples, and practice questions with answers.
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Cuemath

Cuemath: Diameter

For Students 6th - 8th
Understand the concept of diameter by learning the definition and symbols. Check-out the solved examples for better understanding and try your hand at solving a few interactive questions at the end of the page.
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Unit Plan
Cuemath

Cuemath: Circumference of a Circle

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Understand the concept of circumference by learning the definition, circumference geometry definition, circumference equation, and circumference of a circle formula. Check-out the interactive simulation for better understanding and try...
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Unit Plan
Cuemath

Cuemath: What Is Pi?

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about pi. This lesson targets what is pi, the pi symbol, the pi number, and the pi circle in the concept of what is pi. Check-out the interactive simulations to know more about the lesson and try your hand at solving a few...
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OER Commons

Oer Commons: Measuring Circles

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders will measure the circumference and diameter of round things in the classroom and discover the ratio pi. They will see that the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter can be used to solve for the circumference...
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Other

Visnos: Explore Pi

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive demonstration shows firstly how pi relates to the circumference of a circle. This is achieved using a regular polygon approximation, the closed polygon is opened to reveal this magical number. The area of a circle is...
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American Chemical Society

American Chemical Society: Best of Wonder Science: Balloon Bath [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
An experiment to determine what happens to the air inside a balloon when it is heated or cooled.
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Math2

Math2: Circles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site has many useful formulas and examples relating to circles, including related definitions, circumference of a circle, area of a circle, length of a circular arc, area of a circular sector, equation of a circle in cartesian...
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Website
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Elementary Geometry Circles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Math Forum offers an archive of question and answer sessions on circles and how they relate to geometry.
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Pi

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Mathworld.com provides a detailed overview of pi. Content includes a diagram, an analysis of its value, how and when pi crops up in mathematics, historical references to pi, and more.
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Handout
University of North Carolina

A Dictionary of Units of Measurement

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains an extensive list of various units of measurement known internationally and across several disciplines. Unit symbols are also included.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: To the Moon

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use linear regression to generate the formula for circumference.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Approximation of Pi

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will measure the circumference and diameter of a variety of different circles. They will graph the class' values of (d,c) on the coordinate plane and use linear regression to approximate pi.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Arc Length and Area of Sectors

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This is an introduction to finding the arc length and area of sectors of circles. Students should have the formulas for Circumference and Area of circles.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Looking at Statistics Through Circles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will measure round objects to determine the circumference and diameter, and use the data to explore geometric concepts of the circle with statistics.