If you are looking for some circle area activities, this article showcases a collection of well-reviewed teaching resources on finding area and circumference of a circle. There are games, worksheets, quizzes, word problems, and other activities to add some buzz to your lessons!
The resources here are targeted to the learning requirements of students in grade 3 through grade 8. These printable activities cover a range of abilities so that you can adapt and target them to the level of your class.
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11 Free Area of a circle practice resources!
1.) Area of a circle mini-quizzes
Circles Unit Mini-Quizzes – Circumference and Area FREEBIE
Two free quizzes from the circles mini quizzes unit. These quiz sheets are a half page and act perfectly as formative assessments or as a brief summative assessment. The quizzes target a single topic area at a time allowing you to quickly assess whether your students have gained a sufficient understanding in this area before progression to the next topic area.
The resource consists of:
- Finding the circumference and area of a circle when the diameter and radius are known.
- Calculating the area and circumference when the Pythagorean theorem or trigonometry are required to calculate the diameter. This measurement can then be used to calculate the area and circumference of the circle.
- The two quizzes here are a sample from a larger collection of quizzes that includes:
1) Naming the different key features of a circle:
• Center: the single point which lies at the center of the circle.
• Diameter: any straight line that connects two points on the circumference and passes through the center. Any diameter you draw will be the same length.
• Radius: any straight line that connects the center to a point a on the circumference. Any radius you draw will be the same length.
• Circumference: the distance around the outside of the circle, i.e. the perimeter of the circle.
2) Classification of arcs
3) Calculating the length of an arc
4) Calculating the angle subtended in a circle
5) Calculation of inscribed angles
6) Chords
7) Intersection of secants inside a circle
8) Secants exterior to the circle
9) Tangents
All the resources are complete with their own answer key.
Download this free vacation themed circle area activity here
2.) Pi day Area and Circumference of Circles Worksheets
This is a vacation themed Pi Day resource for your math lessons. This resource asks students to use the included worksheets to solve these vacation themed area and circumference of circle problems.
The circle worksheets are available in 2 different formats, both of which come complete with an answer key. The worksheets can be used by individual students or the students can work in pairs.
Students must find the area of a circle given the radius or diameter, circumference of a circle given the radius or diameter, and a word problem involving circumference.
Included in this resource:
-2 Versions of Practice Worksheet
-Answer Key
-Teacher’s Guide plus CCSS, targets, resources, & processes.
Download the free vacation themed Pi day circle activity here
3.) Area of Circle Worded Problems
These worded problems on area of a circle include five Pi day activities. The worded problems are free downloads using pies to represent the circles. Your students must solve these problems to calculate the area and circumference of the pies!
Engage your students with the practically orientated word problems!
This free area and circumference product consists of:
– A color version of the word problem worksheet
– An additional B&W version
I hope you and your class enjoy this freebie!!
Download the free circle area word problem resource here
4.) Outdoor Math – Area of Circle
Get your students out into the real world to explore the math surrounding us!
This outdoor activity will inspire your students creativity and develop their lateral thinking as they solve these outdoor area of circles problems.
The activity is ideally used as a scavenger hunt. Students will look for circular shapes outdoors, draw them and take measurements. When they have done these they will perform their calculations to find the area of the circles.
Students always enjoy outdoor lessons and these outdoor geometry lessons can include other shapes and calculations beyond finding the area of a circle!
Students will need:
- Rulers
- Calculators
- Compasses
- Pens and pencils.
Download the free outdoor circles activity here
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5.) Area of Circle Maze
This maze is a great way to practice calculating the area and circumference of a circle in a fun and engaging way.
Your students are provided with some key data about the circle measurements and make use of this to calculate area and circumference measurements.
Some of the ways that the information can be given is::
- A drawing that has the radius value on it to calculate area or circumference.
- A drawing that has the diameter value on it to calculate area or circumference
- The value of the radius to calculate area or circumference
- The value of the diameter to calculate area or circumference
Your class will need to have prior knowledge of the formulae for finding the area and circumference of circles.
The resource has a total of fifteen problems to solve. Each student will have to solve at least thirteen problems to navigate the entire maze.
The maze is a suitable resource to be used as a spiral review, individual or group work, exit-ticket, etc.
6.) Area of Circle printable
These are no-prep pdf printables are designed for your students to review the area and circumference of circles in a fun and active way.
This resource includes circle pages and can be used in your regular geometry lessons or ideally on Pi-day!
This activity could be used as bell work, for review or for homework.
How does this Area of a Circle Printable work?
Students must extend the drawing by solving area and circumference of circle problems.
There is a calculator and non-calculator version. This is done by asking for answers in terms of Pi in the non-calculator version.
There is an extension question sheet that can be given to students who finish early.
The resource includes:
• Instructions
• Basic area of circle questions
• More challenging area of circle questions
• Solutions
7.) Area of Circles Scavenger Hunt
In this scavenger hunt students will calculate the area and circumference of a circle in this active lesson resource.
This activity is Common Core State Standard 7.G.B.4 aligned
In the resource package:
- Ten question scavenger hunt with questions on area and circumference of a circle
– A worksheet to record solutions
-Answer Key
An excellent review activity!
Download this free area and circumference scavenger hunt here
8.) Area of Circles Scavenger Hunt
Here is a collection of ten PI day resources. These low prep activities are ideal as engaging resources to add to your lesson requiring minimal time on your part. The resource pack contains resources that can be useful as a quick in lesson activity and other resources that would fill an entire lesson on their own!
The product is a pdf printable containing:
- Content index
- Word-search
- Answer Keys
- Pi Poster!
9.) Area of Circles Scavenger Hunt
The printable has a variety of 4 questions in the first part. The questions cover several types of 2-D shapes including circles. Students will have the opportunity to review the key formulas for each of these shapes.
These worksheets include space for answers and workings. Students will also be able to use basic numeracy in their calculations.
These area worksheets also include composite shapes. These are active resources where students engage with finding areas of circles and other shapes in a hands-on way.
Answer keys are included for these fun and engaging resources.
10.) Area of Circles Scavenger Hunt
This is a geometry Bingo game testing students on their understanding of the vocabulary of 2D geometric shapes.
The set has printable pdf bingo cards with a set of 10 different versions.
In each section of the bingo card is a picture of a 2D shape, including such shapes as squares, circles, rectangles, trapezoids, rhombuses, a variety of triangles, and other multi-sided polygons.
Students will also be expected to have a knowledge of how to apply area and perimeter calculations as well as their geometric vocabulary to answer the bingo questions.
The Common Core Standards expect the provision of opportunities to identify, classifying, compare, and solve problems. This engaging activity gives ample opportunity to stretch students in all of these areas.
The resource comprises:
- Ten variations of printable pdf bingo game cards.
- Guidance on how to play this geometry bingo game.
- Printable clues
The cards are color but can also be printed satisfactorily in grey-scale.
11.) Area of Circles Scavenger Hunt
Circle Area and Circumference Bingo! game
This is a fun activity that the students really get into by using bingo as a competitive game. There are questions on finding the area and circumference of circles; the resource also includes more complex compound shapes that include the area of circles calculations.
Using the included PowerPoint, the circles and compound shapes are displayed to your students with some measurements included. The problems are differentiated to suit a range of abilities, and the sequence of the questions can be changed to suit your class.
The bingo cards are included as a printable pdf sheet as part of this area and circumference of circles resource. There are enough bingo cards for classes of up to thirty-six students. If you would prefer not to print the questions can be projected from one slide and students can copy their selection of questions onto a grid in their workbooks.
How to play this circle area game:
If a question is displayed that they have the solution to then they cross it off their answer grid. The first student to achieve a complete set of answers to all the problems must call out bingo! I usually motivate my students by offering a small reward for the first student to achieve bingo.
I find this as a great way to involve students in a review activity and it is so much more fun than simply handing out a worksheet on circle areas!
Download the area and circumference of a circle bingo game here
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