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Strand: GEOMETRY - Circles (G.C)

Understand and apply theorems about circles (Standard G.C.1-4). Find arc lengths and areas of sectors of circles. Use this as a basis for introducing the radian as a unit of measure. It is not intended that it be applied to the development of circular trigonometry in this course (Standard G.C.5).

Standard G.C.5

Derive using similarity the fact that the length of the arc intercepted by an angle is proportional to the radius, and define the radian measure of the angle as the constant of proportionality; derive the formula for the area of a sector.

  • Inscribing and Circumscribing Right Triangles
    This lesson unit is intended to help educators assess how well students are able to use geometric properties to solve problems.
  • Module 7: Circles from a Geometric Perspective - Student Edition (Math 2)
    The Mathematics Vision Project, Secondary Math Two Module 7, Circles: A Geometric Perspective, is composed of four learning cycles. In the first learning cycle, students use rotations and perpendicular bisectors to find the center of a circle. The second learning cycle in Module 7 builds on the circle relationships that students have learned so far in the module to develop a formula for the perimeter and area of a regular polygon. The third learning cycle addresses relationships among central angles, radii, arcs, and sectors. Students calculate arc length and the area of a sector. The final learning cycle in Module 7 is an intuitive approach to volume of prisms, pyramids, and cylinders.
  • Module 7: Circles from a Geometric Perspective - Teacher Edition (Math 2)
    The Mathematics Vision Project, Secondary Math Two Module 7, Circles: A Geometric Perspective, is composed of four learning cycles. In the first learning cycle, students use rotations and perpendicular bisectors to find the center of a circle. The second learning cycle in Module 7 builds on the circle relationships that students have learned so far in the module to develop a formula for the perimeter and area of a regular polygon. The third learning cycle addresses relationships among central angles, radii, arcs, and sectors. Students calculate arc length and the area of a sector. The final learning cycle in Module 7 is an intuitive approach to volume of prisms, pyramids, and cylinders.
  • Mutually Tangent Circles
    This is a challenging task which requires students to carefully divide up the picture into different pieces for which the area is known.
  • Sectors of Circles
    This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to solve problems involving area and arc length of a sector of a circle using radians. It assumes familiarity with radians and should not be treated as an introduction to the topic.
  • Student Task: Circles in Triangles
    In this task, the students have to find the radius of circles inscribed in various sizes of right triangle.
  • Student Task: Temple Geometry
    During the Edo period (1603-1867) of Japanese history, geometrical puzzles were hung in the holy temples as offerings to the gods and as challenges to worshippers. Here is one such problem for students to investigate.
  • Two Wheels and a Belt
    This task combines two skills from domain G-C: making use of the relationship between a tangent segment to a circle and the radius touching that tangent segment (G-C.2), and computing lengths of circular arcs given the radii and central angles (G-C.5).


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