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Circles, Arcs And Sectors Worksheet
Help your students prepare for their Maths GCSE with this free circles, arcs and sectors worksheet of 35 questions and answers
- Section 1 of the circles, arcs and sectors worksheet contains 28 skills-based circles, arcs and sectors questions, in 3 groups to support differentiation
- Section 2 contains 4 applied circles, arcs and sectors questions with a mix of worded problems and deeper problem solving questions
- Section 3 contains 3 foundation and higher level GCSE exam questions
- Answers and a mark scheme for all questions are provided
- Questions follow variation theory with plenty of opportunities for students to work independently at their own level
- All questions created by fully qualified expert secondary maths teachers
- Suitable for GCSE maths revision for AQA, OCR and Edexcel exam boards
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Circles, arcs and sectors at a glance
Circles are closed two-dimensional figures that consist of a set of points that are equidistant from a given point called centre O.
A sector of a circle is a part of a circle made up of two radii and the arc of the circle. When finding the area of a sector, we adjust the formula for the area of a circle (ΟrΒ², where in r is the radius of the circle). A simple example of this is the area of a semicircle – to calculate this, we calculate the area of the entire circle, then divide that by 2, because a semicircle is half of a circle. To find the area of other sectors, divide the sector angle by 360 and multiply this by ΟrΒ². Essentially we are finding the required proportion of the area of the circle.
An arc length is a proportion of the circumference of a circle and can be calculated using an adaptation of the formula for the circumference of a circle. We divide the sector angle by 360, and multiply this by ΟDΒ (where D is the diameter of the circle), finding the required proportion of the circumference of the circle.
The algebraic formula for length of an arc and area of a sector frequently use Ξ for the angle at the centre of the circle – it is important that students recognise this notation.
We calculate the perimeter of the sector by finding the sum of the length of the arc, and two lots of the circle’s radius. As problems involving arcs and sectors use Ο, answers will frequently need to be rounded to a given number of significant figures or decimal places. This topic of circles can be extended further to include finding the area of a segment, which can also require trigonometry applications.
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