Circle properties and circle theorems

  • problem
    Favourite

    Right Angles

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
    filled star filled star empty star

    Can you make a right-angled triangle on this peg-board by joining up three points round the edge?

  • problem
    Favourite

    Cyclic Quadrilaterals

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
    filled star empty star empty star

    Draw some quadrilaterals on a 9-point circle and work out the angles. Is there a theorem?

  • ArRh!
    problem

    ArRh!

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
    filled star empty star empty star

    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. What is the value of r/R?

  • problem
    Favourite

    Salinon

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
    filled star empty star empty star

    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?

  • circles in quadrilaterals
    problem
    Favourite

    Circles in Quadrilaterals

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
    filled star empty star empty star

    Explore when it is possible to construct a circle which just touches all four sides of a quadrilateral.

  • Long Short
    problem

    Long Short

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
    filled star filled star empty star
    What can you say about the lengths of the sides of a quadrilateral whose vertices are on a unit circle?
  • Sitting Pretty
    problem
    Favourite

    Sitting Pretty

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
    filled star filled star empty star

    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 tennis balls on a clay surface.
    problem

    Three Balls

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
    filled star filled star empty star

    Do points P and Q lie inside, on, or outside this circle?

  • Geometry and Measure - Short Problems
    problem

    Tied Up

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
    filled star filled star empty star

    How much of the field can the animals graze?

  • Triangle Incircle Iteration
    problem

    Triangle Incircle Iteration

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
    filled star filled star filled star
    Keep constructing triangles in the incircle of the previous triangle. What happens?