From: emilief@telus.net
Date: Mon Mar 22 2004 - 14:16:24 PST
Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/ School Name: Alex Hope Elementary School Location: Walnut Grove, Langley, B.C, Canada Email Address: emilief@telus.net Experimenter: Emilie Frederick and Nick M. Latitude 49.15 Longitude: 122.6 Distance to Equator: 5470.5 Measured shadow angle in degrees: 50.3 Calculated Earth circumference: 39168.78 km Comments: I think that Eratosthenes was very smart to think of how to do this at the time of the world he was in. Eratosthenes answered a huge question of the world. Eratosthenes made a big diferance in math. I think that a lot of jobs require the math that he made and descovered. I had a lot of fun discusing the project with my group and debating the correct answer. I would like to learn some more about this project. we would find an answer then find out it was wrong, so we would have to do it all over again. We would sometimes have to do it several times before we got it. I think it was a lot of fun. I think it is cool how an ordinary person can do something so amasing! Emilie,