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Circles/circumference Interactive Learning Sites for Education
Includes record sheets and interactive media exploring circles and circumference from general parts of the circle to the relationship of the circle parts.
OER Commons
Oer Commons: Measuring Circles
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...
Other
Simple Science: Slice of Pi
The interactive tutorial explores the history behind Pi and how to find its value. Students use images of circular objects and find the diameter and circumference to obtain an approximate value of Pi. The resource has an interactive...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Pi
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identify pi as the ratio of a circle's diameter to a circle's circumference.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Mathematics: Online Study Tools: Self Check Quiz on Circles
Students show comprehension of advanced mathematics skills in Geometry. The questions check understanding on circles. Topics include diameters, angles, and finding the circumference.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Web Math: Find Out Things About Circles
This WebMath site will assist with finding the radius, diameter, circumference, and area of a circle.
Texas Instruments
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.
Texas Instruments
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.]
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Approximation of Pi
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.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Looking at Statistics Through Circles
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.
Texas Instruments
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.
Texas Instruments
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.
TOPS Learning Systems
Top Science: Pi Graph [Pdf]
An activity where students explore and graph the relationship between the diameter and the circumference of a circle.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Praxis Core Math: Circles Lesson
A basic review of circles and how to calculate the circumference, radius, diameter, and area. Includes practice questions.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: World of Fish: Geometry
Students will play an interactive game to identify the circumference, radius, center, and diameter of circles.
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...
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Circle Calculator
Use this circle calculator to find the area, circumference, radius, or diameter of a circle. Given any one variable A, C, r or d of a circle you can calculate the other three unknowns.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: What Is Circle?
Discusses the radius, diameter, circumference, and area of a circle.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Diameter,circumference,radius & the Discovery of Pi
This site provides a good project for students to use to explore the circumference of a circle.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Circle Designs
In this lesson, students explore circumference and diameter by creating an abstract design with circles. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Circles
Get independent practice working with finding the circumference, area and radius of circles. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
PBS
The Math of Bicycles: Wheel Figure This Out (Grades 4 7)
Several good activities here. Look particularly at Wheel Figure It Out (which is the opening page) and Gearing Up. There are answers to the very good questions at the bottom of each.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Circle Exercises
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...