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Math Homework Hotline previews Pi Day with lesson on circles; student callers solve challenge and win prizes
Summary
Hosts Maggie Mixon and Lisa Arias led a live Math Homework Hotline episode focused on circles ahead of Pi Day, walking listeners through circumference, area, surface area and volume problems; student callers provided answers and won program prizes. Sponsors Edgems and Mathnasium aired features during the broadcast.
Maggie Mixon, host of Math Homework Hotline, and co‑host Lisa Arias spent a live episode reviewing circles ahead of Pi Day, guiding student callers through problems on circumference, area, surface area and volume and awarding winners prizes for correct answers.
The episode opened with a timed challenge: a composite shape made of two small circles (radius 2.5 inches each) resting on a larger circle (radius 7.5 inches). The hosts instructed listeners to use 3.14 for pi and to round to the nearest tenth. Student caller Gerai of Benito Elementary correctly described using the formula “pi r squared” and walked through computing area for the large circle and the two small…
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