Webinars SET B - Grade 7-8 - Sunday@3:15-4:15pm EST-Recording Webinar 8

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The session focuses on solving geometry warm-ups and problems about circles. It begins with a squirrel “region” question: Simon stays within 5 meters of a tree trunk but at least 5 meters away from a doghouse. The teacher explains this as the intersection of two circle-based constraints (inside a radius-5 circle around the tree and outside a radius-5 circle around the doghouse), concluding the correct diagram is choice C.<br /><br />The teacher then reviews problem-solving habits (understand the question, plan, organize work) and key circle vocabulary and formulas: radius, diameter, arc, sector, tangent, secant, area \( \pi r^2 \), and circumference \(2\pi r\). Important properties are highlighted: a tangent is perpendicular to the radius at the point of tangency; equal radii can form isosceles triangles; inscribed angles subtending the same arc are congruent; and opposite angles in a cyclic quadrilateral are supplementary.<br /><br />Students practice multiple-choice problems: (1) finding a circle’s diameter using a rectangle’s equal diagonals to identify a radius of 5, giving diameter 10. (2) A more complex configuration with an equilateral triangle and a point on a circle; maximizing a distance leads to a specific placement of point E and ultimately angle \(BED = 15^\circ\). (3) Two externally tangent circles with a rectangle; by expressing rectangle and triangle areas in terms of radii, the triangle area becomes \(15/4\). (4) Two equal-radius circles (24) and a third tangent circle; using a right triangle and Pythagorean theorem plus difference of squares yields radius 15. A final problem uses central angle information to find an angle in an isosceles right triangle, giving 40°.

Keywords

geometry warm-ups

circle region intersection

tangent radius perpendicular

inscribed angles congruent

cyclic quadrilateral supplementary angles

circle area pi r^2

circumference 2pi r

externally tangent circles

Pythagorean theorem circle tangency

central angle isosceles triangle