Measuring the Area of a Circle

When mathematical errors happen, part of the learning is to figure out how it affects the rest of your calculations. The activity has your mathematicians solving for the area of a circular pipe and taking into consideration any errors that may happen with measuring. The problem may be challenging for some learners to do on their own, so a group discussion would be beneficial as there are multiple areas of measurement error. The answer key includes a detailed commentary that can be used as teacher notes for a lesson and to help guide the discussion.