Kristen Leiker #706 Math 6, per. 5 Anthropometry In math, we did a unit on anthropometry.

Anthropometry is the measurement of human dimensions, anthropos is Latin for human, and metrikos is Latin for measuring. Our overall plan was to measure peoples bones, and figure out their height in a different way. Six teachers, and my fifteen classmates, were involved in this project. We use math in our everyday life, and we do not even realize it. On day one and two, we focused on our radius bone, and graphing. On day one, we watched a video about a person that studies anthropometry. Her name is Diane France, also known as, The Bone Doctor. Then, we measured our radius and measured our height. The radius bone is the smaller bone out of the two in your forearm; you measure it from the inside of your elbow, to your wrist. I am 57 inches tall, and my radius is 7 . We took everybodys information, and found the mean, median, mode, and range. The mean is all the data added up, and divided by the number of numbers (8.3), the median is the middle number of a set of numbers in order (8.5), the mode is the number that occurs the most (8.5), and the range is the maximum minus the minimum (1.5). On day two, we took everybodys information, and put it on a scatter graph. We chose two colors for boys and girls, mine were girls are pink and boys are blue. After we put the data in order on the chart, we added a title, and our name in cool fonts. The x-axis represents the height in inches, the y-axis represented how long the radius was in inches, and the dots represent the peoples height and radius. Then we split the data in half with a line, from the bottom left corner, to the top of the graph. The line represented the average. You find the dot and go down to find the measurement of the radius, and it you go left from the dot you find the height. On day three and four, we focused on our tibia and humerus bone, in our arm and leg. On day three, we measured a bone in our leg called the tibia; it is from below your kneecap, to your ankle. The tibia is the smaller bone of the two in your lower leg. Then we measured the biggest bone in our arm, the humerus, it is from your shoulder to your elbow. My tibia was 12 and my humerus was 10 . Then, we used a formula to estimate our heights. On day four,

Mrs. Schwarz gave us pieces of paper that had information about the teachers heights, and bones. We used a guide to calculate their height. Then we took the real height, and subtracted it from the height predicted, or the other way around. We chose which ones that had the closest numbers, humerus, and wrote a paragraph. Mine included a hypothesis about stretching out your arms is about your height. The closest students height was the same as mine,
57 inches. The least my calculated guess was off by, was 0.5 and the most was 3.85, for the teachers.

We use math in our everyday life, and we do not even realize it. I enjoyed measuring the bones, and laughing at how short I am compared to everyone else. Measuring the bones was difficult, because I could never find where the starting point and the stopping point were. If I could give advice to a forensic scientist or archeologist, I would tell them to do the right formulas and use order of operations.