{"id":12141,"date":"2013-05-09T14:46:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T10:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=12141"},"modified":"2015-09-30T08:14:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T08:14:37","slug":"mathematics-investigating-circles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2013\/05\/09\/mathematics-investigating-circles\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathematics: Investigating circles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week students in grades 6, 7 and 8 have been completing an investigation on the angle properties of four sided shapes in circles, based on an activity I was introduced to on a course last week in Muscat. Students took to the activity very well and managed to establish a general rule regarding what we call &#8216;Cyclic quadrilaterals&#8217;, a concept that is not usually introduced until studying the IGCSE syllabus. Students in grade 7 also completed several examples of IGCSE style questions related to the concept, based on their new understanding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130509-144621.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130509-144621.jpg\" alt=\"20130509-144621.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130509-144638.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130509-144638.jpg\" alt=\"20130509-144638.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week students in grades 6, 7 and 8 have been completing an investigation on the angle properties of four sided shapes in circles, based on an activity I was introduced to on a course last week in Muscat. Students took to the activity very well and managed to establish a general rule regarding what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":12139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30,31,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grade-6","category-grade-7","category-grade-8","category-secondary-maths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}