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Masterpiece 3

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 4-5-6

Achievement Objectives

  • Level 4
    • S4-1 Plan and conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle
      • B gathering, sorting, and displaying multivariate category, measurement, and time-series data to detect patterns, variations, relationships, and trends
      • C comparing distributions visually
  • Level 5
    • S5-1 Plan and conduct surveys and experiments using the statistical enquiry cycle
      • A determining appropriate variables and measures
      • B considering sources of variation
      • C gathering and cleaning data
      • D using multiple displays, and re-categorising data to find patterns, variations, relationships, and trends in multivariate data sets
      • E comparing sample distributions visually, using measures of centre, spread, and proportion
  • Level 6
    • S6-1 Plan and conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle
      • D making informal inferences about populations from sample data

Key Ideas

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Key Competencies

  • Participating and Contributing
    • Contribute to a culture of inquiry and learning
  • Thinking
    • Deal with uncertainty and variation
    • Exploring and using patterns and relationships in data
    • Investigating

Resources

Author

Joanne Woodward

Last revised

Lisa Gilmore and Richard Mackrory (June 2008)

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