Showing posts with label inscribed polygon. Show all posts
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Thursday, September 9, 2010

Approximating the area of a circle

Note: This is the output of the one the Math and Multimedia GeoGebra Tutorials. To view the step-by-step instructions in creating the worksheet below click here.

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Adjust sliders r and n at the right hand slide of the GeoGebra applet window.





















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1.) What do you observe about the relationship between the area of the circle as n increases?
2.) Vary the values of n and r and observe what happens. Based on your observations, what conjecture can you make?