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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today Coming Clean About Showering Time

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity using the USA TODAY Snapshot, "Coming clean about showering time," students will find the measures of central angles and arcs of a circle. They will use circumference, radius, concentric circles and degrees in a circle...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Web Math: Find Out Things About Circles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This WebMath site will assist with finding the radius, diameter, circumference, and area of a circle.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Praxis Core Math: Circles Lesson

For Students 9th - 10th
A basic review of circles and how to calculate the circumference, radius, diameter, and area. Includes practice questions.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: World of Fish: Geometry

For Students 5th - 6th
Students will play an interactive game to identify the circumference, radius, center, and diameter of circles.
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Math2

Math2: Circles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Tube Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
This calculator will calculate the various properties of a tube, also called a pipe or hollow cylinder, given 3 known values from variables of radii, circumference, wall thickness and height.
Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Sphere Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
This online calculator will calculate the 3 unknown values of a sphere given any 1 known variable including radius r, surface area A, volume V and circumference C. It will also give the answers for volume, surface area, and circumference...
Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Circle Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: What Is Circle?

For Students 2nd - 8th
Discusses the radius, diameter, circumference, and area of a circle.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Diameter,circumference,radius & the Discovery of Pi

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site provides a good project for students to use to explore the circumference of a circle.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Watching the Wheels Go `Round and `Round

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use the formula for the circumference of a circle to solve the challenge of this problem. The solution is available at this one page website.
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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...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Area of a Circle

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Find the area of a circle given its radius, diameter, or circumference. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Multicultural Math Fair: Srinivasa's Spheres

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Straightforward lesson plan that introduces learners to pi by letting them measure real objects and solve a challenge problem. Includes instructions and a "Data Sheet" for keeping track of measurements. Available in English and Spanish.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Geometry in the Plane

For Students 9th - 10th
Twenty-four problems presented on a variety of Plane Geometry topics. 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...
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Mr. Martini's Classroom

Mr. Martini's Classroom: Circles Geometry Review

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This resource provides two levels of multiple choice questions to review the parts of a circle as well as area and perimeter.
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Mathigon

Mathigon: Geometry: Circle and Pi: Degrees and Radians

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rather than dividing a circle into some number of segments (like 360 degrees), mathematicians often prefer to measure angles using the circumference of a unit circle - a circle with radius 1. This way of measuring angles is called...
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Cuemath

Cuemath: What Is a Radian?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive guide for learning all about radians with definitions, formulas, the arc length formula, angles, the circumference, the radius, solved examples, and practice questions.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: The Cylinder Problem: Elementary Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Use this lesson plan to help students learn about cylinders. Students will be creating cylinders, and comparing them and their capacity. This engaging, hands-on lesson will hold student interest and be very beneficial to student learning.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: The Cylinder Problem: Middle School Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson offers an interesting, hands-on experience for middle school students studying cylinders. Students will create cylinders, and measure and compare their volumes.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Far Does the Robot Go?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice their multiplication skills using robots with wheels built from LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT kits. They brainstorm distance travelled by the robots without physically measuring distance and then apply their math skills to...
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Cuemath

Cuemath: Area of a Circle

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This mini-lesson explores the area of a circle. Provides a definition, examples, and practice questions with answers.
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Cuemath

Cuemath: Diameter

For Students 6th - 8th
Understand the concept of diameter by learning the definition and symbols. Check-out the solved examples for better understanding and try your hand at solving a few interactive questions at the end of the page.
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Cuemath

Cuemath: What Is Pi?

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about pi. This lesson targets what is pi, the pi symbol, the pi number, and the pi circle in the concept of what is pi. Check-out the interactive simulations to know more about the lesson and try your hand at solving a few...

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