Nick #207 Math 6, per.

2 Anthropometry Project The first thing you should know about anthropometry is what it means. It means measurement of human dimensions, but the word itself is compound, anthropos means human, and metrikos means measuring. What I think was intended in this project was that we were to learn that math is used in everything. The people involved in this project were my classmates, teachers, the middle school dean, and I. I think what our teacher wanted us to learn how you can use math to do anything. On day one and two, we learned what anthropometry was and worked on our radius bone. For the first day, we learned that there is a certain way to measure your radius. You have to find the gap under your wrist and the crease between your forearm and elbow; we measured our radius bone and our height. My measurement was 8.5. Then we graphed the measurements of my classmates and me. We then took those results and found the mean (8.3,) median (8.5,) mode (8.5,) and the range (2.) After that, we watched a little video about Dian France, a forensic bone detective. In the video, it showed how she worked with the Russians to try to figure out the mystery of Anastasia. In day two, we made a scatter graph of all of our classmates heights and radiuss. The x-axis stands for how long your radius is, and the y-axis is how tall you are. The straight line gives an estimation of how tall you are. For day three and four we did some more bone measuring, and learned which bone is best for finding someones height. In day 3, we learned what our humerus and tibia is and how to measure it. To

measure it you need find a little dent under your shoulder and then to the tip of your elbow. The way you measure your tibia is; you need to get right beneath your kneecap and go all the way down to your ankle. My tibia was 12 in., and my humerus was 11 in. Then we learned the formulas to find out how tall someone is. My predicted height for my tibia was 61, my humerus was 62, and my radius was 63.15. The tibia formula was the closest for me. The closest predicted height for Elissa was .1 off from her real height. For day four, we listed our teachers heights, humerus, radius, and tibia. After that, we used the formula to find the difference between their height and the predicted height. By doing that, we learned which bone is the best to find someones height, that bone was the humerus. I think that our teacher really wanted us to learn how you can use math to do anything you could ever think of. What I really enjoyed the most about in this project is how fascinating it was that a little bone could tell how tall you are. The most difficult thing about this project was the graphing and the worksheets. If I were to give a scientist any advice, than it would have to be, always use the humerus bone.