Created by: Elizabeth Fiedler Name________________________________________________ Date_________________

Central Angle

Inscribed Angle

1. What are the similarities and differences you notice between the two types of angles above? List 2 similarities and 2 differences below.

2a. Review: What is the relationship between the measure of APB and the measure of ?

2b. Make a prediction about the relationship between the measure of ACB and the measure of

APB. Be prepared to discuss your prediction with the class.

Fiedler Case #1: For these angles, the center of the circle is located on one of the rays of the inscribed angle. How does ACB compare to AOB? Using the properties of circles and triangles, find the relationship between the measure of the central angle with points A and B, and the inscribed angle with points A and B. Show how you found your answer by writing your steps as a proof.

What relationship did you find between the two angles?

Do you think the relationship will be the same for all central and inscribed angles? Why?

Fiedler Case #2: For these angles, the center of the circle is located inside the inscribed angle. How does ACB compare to AOB? Using the properties of circles and triangles, find the relationship between the measure of the central angle with points A and B, and the inscribed angle with points A and B. Show how you found your answer by writing your steps as a proof.

What relationship did you find for these two angles? Is it the same as the previous relationship?

Fiedler Case #3: For these angles, the center of the circle is located outside the inscribed angle. How does ACB compare to AOB? Using the properties of circles and triangles, find the relationship between the measure of the central angle with points A and B, and the inscribed angle with points A and B. Show how you found your answer by writing your steps as a proof.

Is your relationship still the same for the two angles?

Fiedler Extra Assignment Students can work on this section if they finish the handout, and then students will discuss these questions as a class during the next lesson. 1. What was your conclusion for the relationship between the two angles?

2. Why do you think the relationship was the same for all three cases of angles? Provide a justification based on your proofs from the previous pages.

3. Find an example of a central angle and an inscribed angle that do not demonstrate this relationship? Draw these angles below and explain why they do not follow the relationship.

4. A theorem is a statement that can be proven true for all cases. Write your relationship as a theorem. Be sure to include anything that must be true about the angles in order for the relationship to be true. Write this in complete sentences.

5. How does the measure of an inscribed angle compare to the measure of the arc it makes on a circle? (How does mACB compare to m ?)