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Lunar Angles
Age 16 to 18
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What is the sum of the angles of a triangle whose sides are circular arcs on a flat surface? What if the triangle is on the surface of a sphere?
Kissing
Age 16 to 18
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Two perpendicular lines are tangential to two identical circles that touch. What is the largest circle that can be placed in between the two lines and the two circles and how would you construct it?
Just Touching
Age 16 to 18
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Three semi-circles have a common diameter, each touches the other two and two lie inside the biggest one. What is the radius of the circle that touches all three semi-circles?
Belt
Age 16 to 18
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A belt of thin wire, length L, binds together two cylindrical welding rods, whose radii are R and r, by passing all the way around them both. Find L in terms of R and r.
Circles in Circles
Age 16 to 18
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This pattern of six circles contains three unit circles. Work out the radii of the other three circles and the relationship between them.
Escriptions
Age 16 to 18
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For any right-angled triangle find the radii of the three escribed circles touching the sides of the triangle externally.
Circle Scaling
Age 14 to 16
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Describe how to construct three circles which have areas in the ratio 1:2:3.
Circle Box
Age 14 to 16
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It is obvious that we can fit four circles of diameter 1 unit in a square of side 2 without overlapping. What is the smallest square into which we can fit 3 circles of diameter 1 unit?
Baby Circle
Age 16 to 18
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A small circle fits between two touching circles so that all three circles touch each other and have a common tangent? What is the exact radius of the smallest circle?
Circumnavigation
Age 14 to 16
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The sides of a triangle are 25, 39 and 40 units of length. Find the diameter of the circumscribed circle.
Strange Rectangle
Age 16 to 18
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ABCD is a rectangle and P, Q, R and S are moveable points on the edges dividing the edges in certain ratios. Strangely PQRS is always a cyclic quadrilateral and you can find the angles.
Incircles Explained
Age 16 to 18
This article is about triangles in which the lengths of the sides and the radii of the inscribed circles are all whole numbers.
Incircles
Age 16 to 18
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The incircles of 3, 4, 5 and of 5, 12, 13 right angled triangles have radii 1 and 2 units respectively. What about triangles with an inradius of 3, 4 or 5 or ...?
Perfect Eclipse
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
Use trigonometry to determine whether solar eclipses on earth can be perfect.
Circle Theorems
Age 14 to 16
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This set of resources for teachers offers interactive environments which support work on properties of angles in circles at Key Stage 4.
Flower
Age 16 to 18
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Six circles around a central circle make a flower. Watch the flower as you change the radii in this circle packing. Prove that with the given ratios of the radii the petals touch and fit perfectly.
Salinon
Age 14 to 16
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This shape comprises four semi-circles. What is the relationship between the area of the shaded region and the area of the circle on AB as diameter?
Sitting Pretty
Age 14 to 16
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A circle of radius r touches two sides of a right angled triangle, sides x and y, and has its centre on the hypotenuse. Can you prove the formula linking x, y and r?
Three Four Five
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
Two semi-circles (each of radius 1/2) touch each other, and a semi-circle of radius 1 touches both of them. Find the radius of the circle which touches all three semi-circles.
Partly Circles
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
What is the same and what is different about these circle questions? What connections can you make?
Tricircle
Age 14 to 16
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The centre of the larger circle is at the midpoint of one side of an equilateral triangle and the circle touches the other two sides of the triangle. A smaller circle touches the larger circle and. . . .
Bicentric Quadrilaterals
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
Investigate the properties of quadrilaterals which can be drawn with a circle just touching each side and another circle just touching each vertex.
Arrh!
Age 14 to 16
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Triangle ABC is equilateral. D, the midpoint of BC, is the centre of the semi-circle whose radius is R which touches AB and AC, as well as a smaller circle with radius r which also touches AB and AC. . . .
Circumspection
Age 14 to 16
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M is any point on the line AB. Squares of side length AM and MB are constructed and their circumcircles intersect at P (and M). Prove that the lines AD and BE produced pass through P.
Encircling
Age 14 to 16
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An equilateral triangle is sitting on top of a square. What is the radius of the circle that circumscribes this shape?
Cyclic Quad Jigsaw
Age 14 to 16
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A picture is made by joining five small quadrilaterals together to make a large quadrilateral. Is it possible to draw a similar picture if all the small quadrilaterals are cyclic?
Fixing It
Age 16 to 18
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A and B are two fixed points on a circle and RS is a variable diamater. What is the locus of the intersection P of AR and BS?
Medallions
Age 14 to 16
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Three circular medallions fit in a rectangular box. Can you find the radius of the largest one?
Long Short
Age 14 to 16
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What can you say about the lengths of the sides of a quadrilateral whose vertices are on a unit circle?
Interacting with the Geometry of the Circle
Age 5 to 16
Jennifer Piggott and Charlie Gilderdale describe a free interactive circular geoboard environment that can lead learners to pose mathematical questions.
Three Balls
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
A circle has centre O and angle POR = angle QOR. Construct tangents at P and Q meeting at T. Draw a circle with diameter OT. Do P and Q lie inside, or on, or outside this circle?
Circles in Quadrilaterals
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
Explore when it is possible to construct a circle which just touches all four sides of a quadrilateral.
Crescents and Triangles
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
Can you find a relationship between the area of the crescents and the area of the triangle?
The Cyclic Quadrilateral
Age 11 to 16
This gives a short summary of the properties and theorems of cyclic quadrilaterals and links to some practical examples to be found elsewhere on the site.
Some(?) of the Parts
Age 14 to 16
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A circle touches the lines OA, OB and AB where OA and OB are perpendicular. Show that the diameter of the circle is equal to the perimeter of the triangle
Compare Areas
Age 14 to 16
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Which has the greatest area, a circle or a square, inscribed in an isosceles right angle triangle?
Set Square
Age 16 to 18
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A triangle PQR, right angled at P, slides on a horizontal floor with Q and R in contact with perpendicular walls. What is the locus of P?
Lens Angle
Age 14 to 16
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Find the missing angle between the two secants to the circle when the two angles at the centre subtended by the arcs created by the intersections of the secants and the circle are 50 and 120 degrees.
Similarly So
Age 14 to 16
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ABCD is a square. P is the midpoint of AB and is joined to C. A line from D perpendicular to PC meets the line at the point Q. Prove AQ = AD.
Triangle Incircle Iteration
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level
Keep constructing triangles in the incircle of the previous triangle. What happens?
Cyclic Quadrilaterals
Age 11 to 16
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Draw some quadrilaterals on a 9-point circle and work out the angles. Is there a theorem?
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