Activity
Maths Challenge

Maths challenge.net: Annulus

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An annulus of a circle is defined and then a proof like problem is posed involving area and radius of circles.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Challenge Problems: Radius & Tangent

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Solve two challenging problems that apply properties of tangents to find the radius of a circle with a tangent.
Handout
Cuemath

Cuemath: Radius

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This reference tool explores the radius of a circle. Provides definitions, solved examples, and practice questions with answers.
Activity
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Web Math: Graph a Circle

For Students 9th - 10th
WebMath offers a java applet that allows you to input information about a circle, in one of four forms, and gives you the graph of the circle.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Inscribing a Circle in a Triangle

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students bisect the angles of a triangle and find the incenter of the triangle. They find the distance from the incenter to the side of the triangle and use it as radius. With the incenter as the center, they inscribe a...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Area of a Circle

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews basic geometric forms in nature and real objects. Students are then given opportunities to find the area of circle and parts of a circle, given the radius and/or diameter of the...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Coordinate Geometry Circles

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students investigate the relationship between the coordinates of a point on the circle, radius of a circle, and the values in the equation of the circle.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exploring Circles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the relationship between the center and radius of a circle and the equation of the circle. Collect data and determine regression equations related to various combinations of data, and use the regression equations to make...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Equations of Circles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students will explore the relationship among the location of the center of the circle, the radius of a circle, and the equation of a circle in a plane. They will also investigate the relationship between the points...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Area of Sectors and Segments

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students find the area of a sector or segment. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional videos and attempt practice...
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Determining Unknown Values Using the Volume of a Cylinder

For Students 9th - 10th
This video lesson demonstrates how to work backward and use the volume of a cylinder to find an unknown value such as the radius or height. Students can check their understanding with an assessment. [4:41]
Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Power of a Point

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this tool to investigate what happens when point P is moved to various points within, on, and outside the circle. Can you identify any relationships among the segments and radius?
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Circles

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
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.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Talking in Circles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The students will identify parts of the circle including center, radius, diameter, chord, and arc. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Inscribing an Equilateral Triangle in a Circle

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Suppose we are given a circle of radius r. The goal of this task is to construct an equilateral triangle whose three vertices lie on the circle. Aligns with G-CO.D.13.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Circumscribing a Circle About a Triangle

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students use the distance of the circumcenter of a triangle to each vertex of the triangle as the radius and draw a circle using the circumcenter as the center.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Circle of Confusion Calculation

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand how we can calculate the radius of a circle of confusion
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Scale City: Scaling Up Recipes and Circles in the Real World

For Students 6th - 8th
In this video, students visit a small-town festival that features the world's largest stainless steel skillet. In addition to a question about scaling recipes, they also are asked how increasing or decreasing the radius of a circle...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Square Wheeled Tricycle: Radius and Circumference

For Students 6th - 8th
This interactive exercise focuses on working with the radius of various circles to find the circumference and area as well as challenging you to find the distance a square wheel travels around the track.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Radius and Diameter

For Students 6th - 8th
Practice finding the radius and diameter of a circle using both vocabulary and visuals. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Circle Circumference

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students find the circumference of a circle given the radius or the diameter. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Circle Circumference

For Students 6th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson students find the circumference of a circle given its diameter or radius. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice, watch instructional...
Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Radius

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This math site from MathWorld.com defines radius in terms of both a circle and a sphere. The site includes a diagram and links to related topics.
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: The Pi Are Square

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use the formula given for the area of a circle and a square to solve this challenge. This one page website has the solution available for you.