Tuesday, May 10, 2011

From Feet to Fathoms

Guiding Question: What is the impotence of having an International measuring system? How accurate are the old measurements using body parts?

Hypothesis: At the begging of this lab I thought that all of the old measurements would not be even close to the new ones.

Materials: The materials that my group needed where: Notebook, Pencil/Pen, Bodies, Ruler

Procedure and Record & Analyze :The procedure in my group was that we first make a table in our notebook then we wrote: Object,Measurement,1,2,3,Average and Actual. Now for Object we would write the object Ex: Whiteboard,Peep etc then we wrote the Measurements Ex: Fathom, Inch, Centimeter, Hand(palm) etc
the next thing we did was we choose 1 measurement that would be appropriate for the object because who would measure the hallway with inches. We measured 3 times when we got to the Average what we did there is we took a calculator and added the 3 numbers and then divided by 2 to get our result. For the actual we used a ruler to measure the object and see if our estimation was close.







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