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 Learning Intention
• Learn how to calculate the circumference of a circle.

Success Criteria
• I can learn the parts of a circle.
• I can learn how to calculate the circumference of a circle using the diameter
and the radius.
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• What we know about a circle?

• One curved edge

• No straight edges
• No corners
• It’s symmetrical
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We can measure the distance straight across the centre of the circle.

10cm

This is called the

diameter.
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We can also measure a circle from the centre point to the edge.

5cm

This is called the radius.

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Sometimes it is important to measure the distance around the outside of
the circle.

This is called the

circumference.

But how could we do this?

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We could use a piece of string, place it around the outside of the circle and
then measure the length.

What problems could we

have with this?
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To help us we can also use a calculation.

• For this calculation we need to use

something called Pi.
• This can be shown as a symbol - π
• Pi represents a number, which equals
3.141592
• We can round this to 3.14 for our
circumference calculation.
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Circumference of a circle = π x diameter

• This can also be written as C = πd

• C = 3.14 x d

The diameter of this circle is 10cm.

The calculation would be:
10cm
C=πxd
C = 3.14 x 10
C = 31.4 cm
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Instead of using the diameter to work out the circumference how else could we do
it?
• We could use the radius to calculate the
circumference.

So the calculation would be:

C = 2π  r
5cm
C=2xπ xr
C = 2 x 3.14 x r
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Using the same circle as the previous example, let’s work out the circumference
using the radius.

C = 2    r
C = 2 x 3.14 x 5
C = 6.28 x 5 
5cm C = 31.4 cm

Or

C = 3.14 x 2 x 5
C = 3.14 x 10
C = 31.4 cm
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Using the diameters shown work out the circumference of each circle.

20cm 26cm

15cm
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20cm 26cm

15c
m
20 cm diameter circle 26 cm diameter circle
C = 20 x 3.14 C = 26 x 3.14
C = 62.8 cm C = 81.64 cm
15 cm diameter circle
C = 15 x 3.14
C = 47.1 cm
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Using the radius of each of these circles, work out the circumference of each.

11cm
14cm

8cm
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14cm
11cm

8cm

11 cm radius circle
14 cm radius circle
C = 2 x 11 x 3.14
C = 2 x 14 x 3.14
C = 22 x 3.14
C = 28 x 3.14
C = 69.08 cm
8 cm radius circle C = 87.92 cm
C = 2 x 8 x 3.14
C = 16 x 3.14
C = 50.24 cm