| Number of heartbeats in 20 seconds: 29 Number of heartbeats in one minute: 87 Number of heartbeats in one hour: 5,220 Number of heartbeats in one day: 125,820 Number of heartbeats in one week: 876,960 Number of heartbeats in one month: 3,774,600 Number of heartbeats in one year: 45,924,300 | |
Reflection Questions: 1. How many heart beats did you think you would have in one year before extrapolating? Were you close or far off? 2. Explain what "extrapolating" means to younger children. 3. What are some other things you can extrapolate? Give some examples. | Answers: 1. 15,000,000. I was way far off. I was off by 30,924,300. 2. Extrapolating means to extend something. If you have the number 5 then you multiply it, that's extrapolating. 3. You can extrapolate the amount of blinks,, and the amount of steps you take. |
RSS Feed
