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How Do You Find the Area of a Sector of a Circle?
How do you find the area of a sector of a circle? Use the formula of course. Then all you have to do is plug in the given values and do the math. Make sure you are following the rules of order of operation. The instructor will walk you...
Corbett Maths
Parts of the Circle
Before you can do anything with circles, you need to know the parts of the circle. Viewers of a short video see how to label relevant information about a circle. The resource covers radius, diameter, circumference, chord, tangent, arc,...
Corbett Maths
Circle Theorems
Circles are ripe with theorems. Viewers of a YouTube video watch as the narrator describes a set of eight theorems on circles. The video shows a diagram for each theorem and provides a brief explanation for each one.
Corbett Maths
Arc Length
There's no need to go to great lengths to learn about circles. Young mathematicians view a short YouTube video on how to find arc lengths of circles. The video covers a few examples highlighting the method of determining arc length in...
Corbett Maths
Area of a Circle
Circle back and use the resource to review area. Young pupils see how to find the area of a circle given its radius or diameter. The instructive video also shows an example of how to find the radius given the area.
Numberphile
Tau Replaces Pi
If it ain't broke, don't fix it? Young mathematicians learn about the advantages of replacing pi with tau, such as a more conceptual understanding of radian measure. The video in the Numberphile Pi series also explains why such a move...
Numberphile
How Pi Was Nearly Changed to 3.2
Were it not for a coincidence, Indiana might have legislated an incorrect value of pi. Scholars listen to a true story about how Indiana's House of Representatives wanted scholars in the state to learn that pi was equal to 3.2. A math...
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Area of Circles
Using a basic formula one can find the area of a circle. Duane walks learners through the steps needed to determine the missing variable, plug in the known variable, and solve to find the area of a circle. He provides two different...
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What is the Formula for the Volume of a Cylinder?
Finding the volume of a cylinder entails using two formulas: the formula for the area of a circle and the formula for volume. The area of the given circle must be solved because that value is used in the formula for volume. Watch this...
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How Do You Find the Volume of a Sphere?
The formula for the volume of a sphere is volume equals four-thirds pi times the radius cubed. That's a mouth-full. But if you are given the radius value of the sphere, all you have to do is plug it in and do the arithmetic. Just...
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How Do You Find the Volume of a Cylinder?
What is the formula to find the volume of a cylinder? Here's the formula - volume equals base times height, and the base of a cylinder is base equals pi times radius squared. If the is a given value for radius, and a given value for...
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How Do You Find the Volume of a Cone?
The formula to find the volume of a cone is volume equals one-third times the base times the height. The base can be found by using the formula to find the area of a circle: base equals pi times radius squared. So it seems that the area...
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How Do You Find the Surface Area of a Sphere?
What do a basketball, a bowling ball, and a ping pong ball all have in common? They are spheres. So how do you measure the surface area of a sphere? Yes, there is a formula and all you have to do is know one measurement of the sphere to...
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How Do You Find the Lateral and Surface Areas of a Cylinder?
There are three formulas that need to be used to solve this problem. The formula for the lateral area of a cylinder, the formula for the circular base of the cylinder, and then the formula for the surface area. It seems like quite a bit,...
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How Do You Find the Slant Height of a Cone?
Use the Pythagorean theorem formula to find the slant height of a cone. If the height of the cone and the radius of the base are given, using the Pythagorean theorem formula will be a piece of cake. Just plug in the values given and solve.
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What is a Sector and Central Angle?
Slice a large piece of pie or slice a small piece of pie? Whichever way you slice it, this piece of pie would be a fraction of the whole pie. This analogy corresponds with the sector of a circle being a piece of the pie. The size of the...
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What is Circumference?
There are actually two formulas to find the circumference of a circle. One formula is based on knowing the diameter of the circle, and the other is based on knowing the radius of the circle. The instructor illustrates both formulas. She...
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How Do You Find the Circumference of a Circle if You Know the Diameter?
There are two formulas that can be used to find the circumference of a circle. Choose the appropriate formula depending on the given value in the problem. After selecting the correct formula, solve the problem using 3.14 as an estimation...
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What is the Formula for the Area of a Sector of a Circle?
Are you looking for the formula for the area of a sector of a circle? But what's a sector? A sector is just a fraction of the area of a circle. Follow the instructor as she illustrates and labels the different parts of a circle. She also...
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How Do You Find the Area of a Circle if You Know the Radius?
There are basically two things you need to know to find the area of a circle. First, you need to use the correct formula. Second, you have to know the value of the radius. If you know these two things then all you have to do is plug the...
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How Do You Find the Area of a Circle if You Know the Diameter?
Do you know the formula to find the area of a circle? Do you know the value of pi? Do you know what the relationship is between diameter and radius? Yes? Then you can solve this problem. If your scholars don't know this formula then this...
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What is the Formula for the Area of a Circle?
Cut up a circle and make a parallelogram! What? No way! Yes way! Watch the instructor illustrate just how to cut up the circle and get that parallelogram to then get the formula for the area of a circle. It really works! Base,...
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What is an Angle?
An angle is formed when two rays share a common endpoint. Want to know more about angles? There are a lot of terms in this lesson. You might have to watch it two or even three times to make sure you understand all the terms. I recommend...
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Circumference by Math Busters
The Math Buster goes out and demonstrates a real life example of calculating circumference by walking around the edge of a circle, and compares it to walking from the edge of the circle to the center point. It is a visual demonstration,...