Lesson Plan: Graphing Circles
This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to graph circles with centers at the origin and centers not at the origin.
Objectives
Students will be able to
- identify the coordinates of the center and the radius of a circle when given its equation in the form ,
- graph a circle of equation ,
- determine a circle equation from its graph.
Prerequisites
Students should already be familiar with
- graphing linear and quadratic equations.
Exclusions
Students will not cover
- equations of tangents to circles.