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Tuesday, March 14, 2017

The feet can measure the height.

The bones of the feet can tell a lot about a person.What do feet reveal about a person's height? Forensics anthropologists team up with the law enforcers to help solve crimes.
Bones of the feet can reveal an interesting fact about individual. Let's combine math with forensics to see how.

Image result for foot size chart
Names:              Foot size.                  Hight.

Alex:                        18 cm                 1:3   m              
Aiden:                      23 cm                 1:50 m                15.3    
Shanix:                     27 cm                 1:59 m                  
isabella:                    20 cm                 1:42 m              
Kalim:                      23 cm                 1:52 m      




  1. Have the students in your group remove their shoes and measure their height.
  2. Measure the length of the adult's left foot from the wall to the tip of the big toe.
  3. Examine the numbers. Do you see a pattern?
  4. Divide the length of each person's left foot by his/her height. Multiply the quotient by 100. What do you get? You may also want to use the calculator on a computer for this activity
Use the scientific method to write up this experiment.

  1. Aim: 
  2. Hypothesis
  3. Method
  4. Equipment
  5. Results
  6. Summary
  7. Conclusion

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