{"title":"Broken Ceiling Lights: Circular Area Without the Radius","authors":"Nicholas J. Gilbertson","doi":"10.5951/mtlt.2023.0120","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A customer walks in to a lighting store with a broken ceiling light, and the solution to finding a replacement glass illuminates an alternative approach to finding the circumference and area of a circle without knowing the circle’s center, radius, or diameter.","PeriodicalId":188924,"journal":{"name":"Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK–12","volume":"231 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK–12","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5951/mtlt.2023.0120","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A customer walks in to a lighting store with a broken ceiling light, and the solution to finding a replacement glass illuminates an alternative approach to finding the circumference and area of a circle without knowing the circle’s center, radius, or diameter.