Directions: After reading the USGS Fact Sheet on Scale, viewing the Social Studies Praxis -- Geography, and viewing the work of Sol LeWitt and Mel Bochner, use a part of your body to measure a room/space. Then, write a short paragraph detailing your system and how you decided on a particular scale. For 1 point extra credit, video yourself measuring and post your video. Look within the appropriate lessons for additional assignment criteria.
I chose to use my face as an increment of measurement for measuring my kitchen. It makes sense because the kitchen is where I stuff my face. I initially measured the length and width of the kitchen as well as my face in inches to make conversion easier. The calculations are as follows:
Length= 90in
Width= 137in
Face= 8in
When converting inches to face all I had to do was separately divide the measurements of the kitchen by the measurement of my face. The new measurements were:
Length= 11.25 face
Width= 17.125 face
Face= 1 face
Now all that was left to do was multiply the length by the width to get the measurement of the area of the kitchen squared. My kitchen is 192.65 face^2.
I chose to use my face as an increment of measurement for measuring my kitchen. It makes sense because the kitchen is where I stuff my face. I initially measured the length and width of the kitchen as well as my face in inches to make conversion easier. The calculations are as follows:
Length= 90in
Width= 137in
Face= 8in
When converting inches to face all I had to do was separately divide the measurements of the kitchen by the measurement of my face. The new measurements were:
Length= 11.25 face
Width= 17.125 face
Face= 1 face
Now all that was left to do was multiply the length by the width to get the measurement of the area of the kitchen squared. My kitchen is 192.65 face^2.