From: football_babe_1@hotmail.com
Date: Mon Mar 22 2004 - 14:17:26 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: football_babe_1@hotmail.com Experimenter: Abigail Taylor 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 Eratosthenes was very smart! It was about 2000 years ago so i don't think that anyone had calculators, or anything that would hep him. He had to do the math all by himself! Everyone must have been asking "i wonder how big the world is?" But they probably thought that it was too hard to figure out. But Eratosthenes knew he could figure it out. People must have been very fond and proud of him! He has made a big differance in the world today! If he hadn't found out the answer people would still be trying to figure it out today! We had lots of fun debating and figuring out answers with each other. Some times we got an answer wrong but we figured it out. We chacked with each other about the answers. If someone had made an answer on a divisability question we would all copy the qestion and answer it for ourselfs. I would like to learn mor eabout Eratosthenes and what he did and learn more about our prpject that we've been working on. We wrote all of our answers down in our sience books. We had so much fun working together. I think that all of us worked hard on figuring out the answers but in the end we had fun. I think everyone in our class would like to learn more about this subject and these projects. abigail