‘3 Games Challenge to Reveal the History of Circle’

This game will be play with the total of 4-5 persons in a group. This game must be completed
within 1 hour. The winner of the game will be rated based on the total number of questions
that have being answer and the times for the group to solve the game.

Maze Board Game

1) Each group members will takes turns playing the game.

2) The first person from each group will start the game by placing the ball at the upper
part of the board.
3) There are 3 colours at the lower part of the board (red, blue, green).
4) A ball will move to the either one of the colour part at the lower part of the board.
5) If the ball has reached the either one of the colour, the group have to remember the
colour of the ball to match with the second game.

Figure 1: Maze Board Game

Spin the Wheel Game

1) Each group member that has getting the colour at the maze board game they will
continue with the spin the wheel game.
2) In this game, each group member must target the same colour in what she/he get from
the first game.
3) There also three choices of colours on the surface of the wheel.
4) The wheel must be spin at the fast speed.
5) After the wheel has stopped spinning, look at where the arrow has stopped.
6) The arrow on the spin wheel game must point the same colour with the first game to
continue with the last game.
7) If the person gets the wrong colour, the person has to spin the wheel again until she/he
gets the match colour.
8) The Maze Board Game and Spin the Wheel Game will play again to answer each of
the questions given.

Figure 2: Spin the Wheel Game

Word Search Game

1) Read the questions carefully and answer all the 10 questions given by highlight or
circle the correct answers.
2) The entire question is related to the history of the circle in Mathematics book chapter
5 from 2.
3) Each group are given 30 minutes to complete the game. Hint will be given to facilitate
the game.
4) The more the number of questions being answer by each of the group the higher the
chances for the group will win the game.

Figure 3: Word Search Game

10 questions for word search

1) Who is the inventor of geometry?

2) The word circle derives from the _________.
3) Who the first record mathematician to study the problem of finding a square with the
same area as a given circle?
4) The first theorems relating to circles are attributed to _________ around 650 B.C.
5) What is the name of mathematician that the first to study circles?
6) Euclid also known as the father of _________ because of his studies.
7) Scribe Ahmes is the author of __________ has found the rule to determining the area
of a circle which corresponds to 256/81 or approximately 3.16.
8) Who showed effectively that the bipolar equation r=kr’ represents a system of coaxial
circles as k varies?
9) The distance between any of the points and the center is called?
10) A _________ is the same as 360°.

Hints:

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2) _ r _ e _k
3) _ _ a x a _ _ _ _ s
4) T _ a l _ _
5) _ _ _ l i d
6) _ e o _ _ t _ y
7) R _ _ n d _ a _ _ r u _
8) _ _ o l l o _ _ _ _
9) R a _ _ _ _
10) _ i _ _ l e