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Texas Instruments: Discovering Pi
Students will measure the circumference and diameter of round objects. They will send in their measurements through TI-Navigator and discover the relationship between the circumference and diameter.
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Texas Instruments: Real Numbers
Students learn to identify real numbers as rational numbers and irrational numbers. They review rational numbers as repeating decimals, and irrational numbers as non-repeating decimals. They also review commutative, associative,...
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Texas Instruments: 3.14159265
In this activity, students investigate the circumference of circles and learn about the irrational number Pi.
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Texas Instruments: Radius, Diameter, and Circumference of a Circle
In this activity, students will learn the basic concepts of the circle. They explore the relationship between the diameter and the radius, and between the diameter and circumference of a circle. They also get familiar with the Greek...
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Texas Instruments: Circle Around
In this activity, students compute the circumference and area of circles. They understand that the ratio of the circumference to the diameter is a value called pi. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Texas Instruments: Predicting Pi
In this activity, students explore the use of linear measurement and calculators to discover the existence of pi, the constant ratio between the circumference and the diameter of a circle.
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Texas Instruments: Is There a Relationship Between Your Fist and Shoe Size?
Students will measure the circumference of their fist and list their shoe size. The lists will be loaded using TI-Navigator in the activity center.
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Texas Instruments: Direct Variation With Powers: Surface Area and Volume
Students find the approximate surface area and volume of an apple, measuring circumference 3 ways, using the mean of the measurements to find the radius. Each students enters the results in a Table on the board.
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Wisconsin's Champion Trees
Environmental Education for Kids offers step-by-step procedures to measure trees. Designed for Wisconsin's Champion Trees, these guidelines can be adopted for use in any state or area.
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Texas Instruments: Exploing Relatioship Between Radius, Area, and Circumference
Visually explore relationships in area and circumference
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Texas Instruments: Circles All Around
This activity provides students an opportunity to explore the relationship between the diameter of a circle and its circumference. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
University of Texas at Austin
Mathematics Teks Toolkit: Exploring C/d= Pie
A collection of circular objects will be used to explore circumference and diameter of circles.
The Math League
The Math League: Area and Perimeter
This tutorial provides a brief introduction about what area is, then gives the formulas for area of a square, rectangle, parallelogram, trapezoid, triangle, and circle. Examples of each formula are provided.
Mr. Martini's Classroom
Mr. Martini's Classroom: Circles Geometry Review
This resource provides two levels of multiple choice questions to review the parts of a circle as well as area and perimeter.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: La Circunferencia
In Spanish. This interactive unit could be used as a visual review of circles, circumference and tangents.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Ingulos en Una Circumferencia
In Spanish. This site discusses the angles relative to the circles. It defines the concept of central angle, inscribed, interior, exterior and some important geometric outcomes and applications which uses these concepts.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: La Circunferencia
In Spanish. In this interactive activity you will get a clear understanding of the definition the circumference of a circle and have fun while learning the relationship between equations and figures.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Tangencias
In Spanish. This interactive unit introduces various geometric concepts which are intended to be tools for solving problems of tangencies between straight lines, circles and points.
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Conicas
Learn about the different conic sessions and try the different interactive exercises.
PBS
Pbs Mathline: Bubble Mania [Pdf]
Bubble Mania is a lesson plan that focuses on the concept of measurement as it applies to the diameter, circumference, and area in a bubble. Extension activities and connections, related worksheets, and additional resources are included.
Other
Allmath: Math Glossary
Are your students having difficulty understanding math terminology? Try this A-Z glossary on math related terms. It's quick, easy to read, and very complete.
Other
Ic Teachers: Shapes, Circles (Basic)
This basic website will give you lots of information about circles. There are also some questions to test your circle knowledge.
Saddleback College
Algebra2 Go: Prealgebra
The resource consists of comprehensive learning tools such as class notes, video lectures, and templates through which students can review prealgebra topics.
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Texas Instruments: Math Today Coming Clean About Showering Time
In this activity using the USA TODAY Snapshot, "Coming clean about showering time," students will find the measures of central angles and arcs of a circle. They will use circumference, radius, concentric circles and degrees in a circle...