Math Circle Report: Teach Me How to Draw a Circle
- Kara Colley
- Jul 20, 2020
- 1 min read
Updated: Nov 30, 2022
I asked Rye to teach me how to draw a circle, but I pretended that I didn't know what a circle was.
Here is our conversation:
Me: Teach me how to draw a circle.
Rye: Draw a round line.
I drew this:

Rye: Connect the round line.
I drew this:

Rye: Don't make it bobby. No in-bobs.
I drew this:

Rye: It's an oval.....who cares?
[A day passes.]
Rye: Smush the oval in.
I drew this:

Rye: No ovalness. The "up-down length" can't be closer than the "side-side" length.
I drew this:

(I love this conversation. He taught me how to draw a circle without knowing the word radius!)