Number of heartbeats in 20 seconds: 27 beats Number of heartbeats in one minute: 81 beats Number of heartbeats in one hour: 4,860 Number of heartbeats in one day: 116,640 Number of heartbeats in one week: 816,480 Number of heartbeats in one month: 3,499,200 Number of heartbeats in one year: 41,990,400 | |
Reflection Questions
Questions 1. How many beats did you think that you would have in a year? 2.Explain what "extrapolating" means to younger children. 3. What are some other things you can extrapolate? Give some examples. | Answers 1. I think that I have around 70,000,000 heart beats in a year. 2. Extrapolating means to extend (make bigger) the results by a certain method that you think will go on, in the following data. In this situation, I extended my results by multiplying them. 3. Some other things you can extrapolate are the number of hiccups you have in a year, the number of sneezes and coughs you have in a year, and number of blinks in a year. |