Circumference and parts of a circle lesson

A lesson on finding the circumference of a circle including all the resources you need to teach it. Skills covered include finding the circumference of a circle, finding the diameter or radius when given the circumference and working out the perimeter and arc length of sectors.

Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson with hardly any preparation (mainly printing!).

Fully differentiated objectives:
Blue:Find the circumference of a circle
Gold:Find the diameter/radius given the circumference
Red: work out the arc length and perimeter of sectors

This resource includes:
• A PowerPoint
• Differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections
• A Treasure hunt on circle names

The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach circumference of circles.
The lessons use the following format:
• Objective and levels
• A “how to teaching portion” with animated examples
• An AfL miniwhiteboard quiz
• Answers to all the booklet questions
• Plenary (with answers)

The powerpoint and booklet are currently set up for GCSE maths grade, however you can edit the grades to reflect KS3 or your own schools assessment criteria. In the word booklet if you change any grade (e.g the blue section) it should automatically change the rest of that colour into the same grade.

This will take up a whole lesson.

Need more resources for circumference of circles?
Differentiated worksheet on Circumference of circles
Circumference of circles set of differentiated treasure hunts (10 cards for each difficulty)
Circumference of circles treasure hunt