Maths – linked to science

Meerkat, Science, Zebra

Do people with longer legs jump the furthest? This was the question we were asked to investigate this morning. We started by thinking about where the longest bone in our body was and the muscles used to make us jump. Then we thought about what maths skills we would need to use to test this question out. We started by measuring the length of our legs and recording the data in our table. After that, we went outside and used our measuring skills to measure the distance each person jumped. We recorded our data and discussed the results as a class