Balanced Assessment
Dart Boards
Bulls eye! Design dart boards with specific chances of winning. Individuals determine the probability of hitting a circular and a triangular dart board inscribed in squares. They create dart boards that have a 50 percent chance of...
CCSS Math Activities
Smarter Balanced Sample Items: 7th Grade Math – Target F
Sometimes it's how you ask the question that counts. The sixth installment of nine from the Smarter Balanced Claim 1 Slideshow series presents a set of 13 questions to assess understanding of angle relationships as well as area and...
Mathematics Assessment Project
Temple Geometry
Temper your excitement of temple geometry. Using algebraic and geometry concepts to determine various measurements in a circle diagram, scholars determine the shaded area of the diagram.
Balanced Assessment
Paving the Patio
Next time you need to repave your patio, have your scholars do all the math. They first calculate and answer questions using the area of patio blocks. Next, they determine the cheapest block to use to pave the patio.
Primary Resources
Drama Warm Ups and Circle Games
Circle games, energetic games, calming games, exit games. Whether used as ice breakers, warm ups, or exit strategies, or used in drama classes or content areas, the 28 games detailed in this packet deserve a spot in your curriculum...
Curated OER
Collaborative Literature Circle For the 21st Century
Using ichat or Edmodo 4th -6th graders participate in an inter-school literature circle. Students from two different schools pair up online through ichat and use a blog to conduct a book circle. This lesson is wonderful; it fully...
Curated OER
Splitting the Penstock
Students investigate the best way to calculate the measurements of an area. In this geometry lesson, students relate a large circle to a cylinder and its measurements. They use PVC pipes to gain hands on experience as they calculate the...
Curated OER
Finding Areas of Triangles, Rectangles, and Circles
Students find the areas of geometric shapes. In this geometry lesson students find and measure the sides, perimeters, and areas of quadrilaterals, triangles, and circles. Students relate the measures to the others by using formulas.
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Finding the Area Under A Curve with Random Probability
Students explore the concept of area under a curve. For this area under a curve lesson, students find the area under a curve using the Monte Carlo method using random points and probability. Students calculate the area under the same...
Curated OER
Area of Triangle using the Semi-Perimeter and Radius
Students investigate the properties of circles. For this geometry lesson, students calculate the area and perimeter of a triangle. They identify the perimeter and radius length of a circle.
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Geometric Probablitiy: Spinners and Dartboards
Slearners explore and analyze the properties of geometric areas. In this geometry lesson, sstudents use technology to simulate spinners and dartboards in order to fing areas of circles and sectors of circles and compare and...
Curated OER
Circles Area Perimeter and Circumference
In this circles activity, students calculate to find the area, radius, circumference and perimeter of circles. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
Curated OER
Circle Area, Perimeter and Circumference
In this area, perimeter, and circumference instructional activity, students 7 questions that require them to fill in 7 blank circles with the information they are provided and calculate the desired answers.
Curated OER
My Test Book: Area and Perimeter
In this online interactive math skills worksheet, learners solve 10 multiple choice math problems regarding area, perimeter, and circumference. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
Curated OER
Circles: Finding Circumference
For this circles worksheet, students find the circumference of 20 circles. Students find the circumference given the radius, diameter, and area of various circles.
Curated OER
Circumference and Area
In this circumference and area worksheet, students find each for a set of 9 circles. A website reference for additional activities is given.
Curated OER
Match The Graph Circles
High Schoolers engage in a study of circles and graphs that are related with the focus upon finding the center and radius. The lesson plan includes the suggestion of giving homework using circle problems before this one to create...
Curated OER
Surface Area of Cylinder Worksheet
In this surface area worksheet, students are given either the diameter or radius and the height of 8 cylinders. They calculate the surface area.
Curated OER
All About Circles Post Test
In this geometry learning exercise, students answer ten multiple choice facts about circles. The questions include finding the diameter, area, and radius of a circle.
Curated OER
Area of 2D Shapes
In this area worksheet, students commence solving for area of squares and rectangles, and continue to parallelograms and triangles, and continue again to rhombi and trapezoids and finish with circles, polygons, and shaded...
Curated OER
Let's Gather Around the Circle
Scholars explore the relationship between circumference and diameter. Groups of learners measure the diameter and circumference of round objects and record their data on a given worksheet. They then input the data into their graphing...
Curated OER
Areas and Probabilities
In this area and probability worksheet, students solve 5 problems where they find the probability of an event occurring. They also use a given photograph of the moon's surface to find the area covered by craters and determine the...
Curated OER
Area Review
In this geometry worksheet, students calculate the area and different polygons such as squares, parallelogram, and rectangles. There are 15 questions with an answer key.
Curated OER
Pushing Pivots
Students calculate the area and diameter length of a circle. In this geometry lesson, students investigate the use of pivots as they review parts of a circle. They create a circle using cardboard and label all the parts.