Circle properties and circle theorems

There are 50 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Circle properties and circle theorems
Partly Circles
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Partly circles

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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What is the same and what is different about these circle questions? What connections can you make?
circles in quadrilaterals
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Circles in quadrilaterals

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Explore when it is possible to construct a circle which just touches all four sides of a quadrilateral.

Tied up
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Tied up

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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How much of the field can the animals graze?
Sports Equipment
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Sports equipment

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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If these balls are put on a line with each ball touching the one in front and the one behind, which arrangement makes the shortest line of balls?
Medallions
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Medallions

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Three circular medallions fit in a rectangular box. Can you find the radius of the largest one?
Crescents and triangles
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Crescents and triangles

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you find a relationship between the area of the crescents and the area of the triangle?
Bicentric Quadrilaterals
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Bicentric quadrilaterals

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Investigate the properties of quadrilaterals which can be drawn with a circle just touching each side and another circle just touching each vertex.
Circumspection
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Circumspection

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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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.
Circumnavigation
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Circumnavigation

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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The sides of a triangle are 25, 39 and 40 units of length. Find the diameter of the circumscribed circle.
Long Short
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Long short

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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What can you say about the lengths of the sides of a quadrilateral whose vertices are on a unit circle?