Maze Activity for Lengths of Chords, Secants, and Tangents

Circle geometry maze on segment lengths: students solve for x in problems with intersecting chords, secants and tangents, and the correct answers mark the path from start to finish.
Year levels
Years 9–11
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Updated Oct 26, 2026

Subject
Geometry, Maths
Topic
Geometry, Chords
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Maze Activity: Lengths of Chords, Secants, and Tangents

This Maze Activity: Lengths of Chords, Secants, and Tangents

is an activity to engage your Geometry students to practise and learn about lengths of chords, secants, and tangents in a circle. This chords, secants, and tangents maze is just what you need to help students practise their maths skills. The problems included in this activity are:

  • segments formed by intersecting chords,

  • intersecting secants, and

  • intersecting tangents and

  • secants.

    This is a self-checking activity that will provide students a fun way to practise their skills.

Do you want a self-checking activity? Students will know if they made a mistake and must go back to find their error.

Do you want a no prep activity? Just print and hand out the maze to students.

The best part? Students will have fun while learning!

What’s included:

  • Maths Maze Worksheet (pdf)

  • Answer Key (pdf)

Benefits:

  • This activity helps students to practise their skills in finding the lengths of chords, secants, and tangents in a circle.

  • The maze is self-checking, so students can easily identify and correct their mistakes.

  • The maze includes a variety of problems that cover a range of topics, so students can practise their skills in a variety of contexts.

  • The maze is accompanied by an answer key, so teachers can easily assess student progress.

How to Use:

  • Print out the maze and answer key.

  • Give the maze to students to complete.

  • Students can check their answers by referring to the answer key.

  • Teachers can assess student progress by reviewing the answer key.

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Learning objectives

  • Find segment lengths formed by intersecting chords, secants and tangents

Skills covered

  • Applying circle segment relationships — setting up an equation for each intersecting chord, secant or tangent problem

  • Equation solving — working multi-step equations, some with surds, to reach each answer

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