Nikki Pre-Algebra 7th Hour Anthropometry Do you know what a bone detective is? Diane France is a bone detective.

She knows where almost every bone in your body is. She knows how to tell how tall you are by using math, if you give her certain data and she uses the right formulas. My 7 teachers, my 15 classmates, and I will be learning anthropometry. Anthropometry is the measurement of human bones. The Latin word Anthropos meaning human, and Metrikos meaning measuring. Math is a very important part of life. To begin, on day 1 and 2 we measured some bones for the formula and made a graph to make it easier to find our heights. The first day, we measured the radius and our height with mean, median, mode, and range. Mean for my class was 8.3 inches (the average length for the radius), the median of the class was 8.5 (list them all in order, then find the one in the middle), the mode was 8.5 (the number that is repeated more often), and the range was 2 (the biggest number subtracted from the smallest number). My radius measurement was 8 inches. My predicted height was 60.1 inches. My partner the second day made a graph of everyone in the class (look at the graph to the left). To find height using the graph convert the inches of the height to feet. The line represents where they line up the most. The X-axis is the measurement of the classmates radius in inches, and the Y-axis is their height in inches.

Next, on day 3 and 4, we measured more bones to help fill in the formula, we estimated our teachers height, and compared it to our equation. The third day, we measured the tibia and the humerus with a tape measure. To use the formulas (on left) we just had to plug in the numbers instead of the letters. After using the formulas, the radius formula worked the best; afterwards we found out Joes radius was the closest to mine. My humerus is 11 inches, but my predicted height was 65.9 inches, my tibia is 13 inches, the predicted height was 61.1 inches. In reality, all of my predicted heights were only 2-5 inches off, to use the formula chart (on next page chart) we just simply plugged in the number to the letters. The tibia is from your elbow to your shoulder; your humerus is from your

kneecap to your feet. Now Diane can use the formulas to find out how tall we are (look on first page chart). On the fourth day, we estimated our teachers height, using their tibia, humorous, and radius. After we figured out the math problems, we got their actual heights and subtracted them to find how much we were off. Finally, math is an extremely important thing that will help you in life. I enjoyed the learning not only about math, but also about anthropometry. My partner and I thought my favorite part was learning all of the different formulas and bones. The only thing I would recommend to Diane is, to make the formula more accurate. Another thing, find an easier way to find height with bones and formulas. If I were in 6th grade math I would think, the difficult part for me would be making the chart. I could never get the dots in the right place. Although I eventually figured it, out.