1. Measurement Investigation:
What is the relationship between height and jumping distance?
Aim:
To investigate the relationship between height and jumping distance.
Hypothesis:
We predict that Gr.4 students’ height will be greater than their jumping distance.
Materials:
- 1 measuring tape
- 1 pencil
- 1 sheet of paper
- 1 clipboard
- 15 Gr.4 students
- 1 roll of masking tape
Method:
1. Collect your materials.
2. Draw a table with 5 columns. (Name, height, jumping distance, difference).
3. Stick the masking tape on the wall vertically.
4. Ask someone to put his/herback on the masking tape.
5. Mark his/her height on the masking tape.
7. Measure the length between the floor and place that you marked on masking
tape. That’s his/her height.
8. Stick the masking tape on the floor horizontally and horizontally (like a T).
10. Ask someone to put his/her feet behind the horizontal masking tape line.
11. Ask him/her to jump.
12. Mark the place he/she jumped on the piece of vertical masking tape.
13. Measure the length from the horizontal line to the place you marked.That’s
his/her jumping length.
14. Repeat these measurements with 15 Gr.4 students.
Name Height (cm) Jumping distance Difference (cm)
(cm)
Kota 134 129 +5
Sajid 145 78 +67
Geon Woo 137 101 +36
Kazuki 147 109 +38
Hanson 145 127 +18
Benedict 149 124 +24
Jack 145 105 +40
Jermaine 143 120 +23
Joshua 132 109 +23
Na youn 140 108 +32
Sarthak 137 103 +34

2. Hyun seo 137 90 +47
Annie 137 92 +45
Diana 143 99 +44
Kaopoon 138 104 +34
All the student’s height was greater than their jumping distance. On average,
student’s height was 34cm greater than their jumping distance.
Conclusion:
Our hypothesis was correct. We conclude that 9-10 years of age, most children’s
height was greater than their jumping distance.
Discussion:
We only measured 15 9-10 old students. We need to measure more 9-10 years
old students in the world to make our data more reliable.
We had some difficulties getting accurate measurements. Some time we didn’t
put zero on the start. Also when we jump, we stepped forward a little so we can’t
measure it correctly.
We would be interested in knowing how does people’s height and jumping
distance’s difference at different ages. It would be interesting if we repeated this
with young children, teenagers, and adults around the world.