Curated OER
Parts of the Circle
In this geometry skills worksheet, students respond to 3 questions that require them to examine the part of circles and identify them as diameters, chords, radii, or centers.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Circles, Segments, and Area
A wealth of resources to supplement instruction on parts of the circle. Find lessons describing chords, tangents, secants, and segments, as well as related practice quizzes and classroom activities.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Circles and Angles
A wealth of material to supplement classroom instruction on circles, angles in circles, and arcs. Find lessons with formulas, diagrams, and example problems with step-by-step solutions, multiple-choice practice quizzes, and activity...
Cuemath
Cuemath: Segment of a Circle
This lesson expands your knowledge about circles by learning about the segment of a circle, which will include its mathematical definition, area of the segment, types of segments in a circle, theorems based on a segment of a circle, and...
Math2
Math2: Circles
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Tricking Hacker
In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad must reclaim the Totally Rad Ring by measuring its radius to create a perfect duplicate.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Relation Between Central Angle and Inscribed Angle Measure
Students investigate the relationship between measure of central and inscribed angles in a circle.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Chords, Secants, and Tangents
Students construct chords, secants, and tangents. From those constructions, they develop a deeper understanding of the terms, as well as explore certain properties of the constructions.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Segments Formed by Intersecting Chords, Secants, and Tangents
This activity is designed to help students discover several important theorems concerning lengths of segments formed by intersecting chords, secants, and tangents.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Real Life Real World Avalanche Rescue
When hikers and skiers go into terrain with a risk of avalanches, they take safety equipment including avalanche rescue beacons. An avalanche rescue beacon sends and receives electromagnetic field signals that travel in circular...
Texas Instruments
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...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Parts of Circles
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Name the parts of a circle.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Circle Sector and Segment
Learn about the "two main 'slices' of a circle" called a sector and a segment, and see how you can calculate the area of a sector or segment using trigonometry.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Arcs in Circles
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept teaches students properties of arcs and central angles in circles. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Parts of Circles
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept teaches students the vocabulary for the parts of circles, including lines passing through circles.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Parts of Circles
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will explore how the length of a chord in a circle changes by moving the points of the chord. Click learn more to watch a video and click challenge me to answer a practice question.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arcs in Circles
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will explore arcs in circles with this interactive activity. Click learn more to watch a video and click challenge me to answer a practice question.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Arcs in Circles
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use the interactive circle to change the measure of the arcs. Click learn more to watch a video and click challenge me to answer a practice question.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Circles in the Coordinate Plane
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will move points on a circle to explore standard equations when given the radius and center. Click challenge me to answer practice problems and click learn more to watch a video.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Circles in the Coordinate Plane: Watering the Field
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students can move points in a circle to determine the standard equation from the raidus and center. Click challenge me to answer practice questions and click learn more to watch a video.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Segments From Secants
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept teaches students to solve for missing segments from secants intersecting circles.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Segments From Chords
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will move points to create a midpoint on a chord. Click 'Challenge Me' to answer a practice question.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Area and Circumference of Parts of Circles
In this exercise, students practice find the area and circumference, of parts of circles. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.