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Masterpiece 1

Leonardo's Vitruvian

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a scientist and an artist. He thought that the span of someone’s arms was equal to their height. Why do you think he was interested in working out body proportions?

Do you think Leonardo’s theories still work today?

Was Leonardo’s theory that a person’s height is equal to their arm span true for New Zealand students in 2007?

Level 3-5

Achievement Objectives

  • Level 3
    • S3-1 Conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle
      • A gathering, sorting, and displaying multivariate category and whole-number data and simple time-series data to answer questions
      • B identifying patterns and trends in context, within and between data sets
      • C communicating findings, using data displays
  • Level 5
    • S5-1 Plan and conduct surveys and experiments using the statistical enquiry cycle
      • B considering sources of variation

Key Ideas

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Key Competencies

  • Thinking
    • Deal with uncertainty and variation
    • Investigating
    • Make predictions

Resources

Author

Joanne Woodward

Last revised

Lisa Gilmore and Richard Mackrory (June 2008)

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