Your students will learn how to create and compare ratios using information about the bones of the human body.
Subjects:
Mathematics (4,978)
TYPE:
Boning Up on Ratios
Excerpted from
Math Amazements
The activities in Math Amazements provide explorations in areas of math thinking such as geometry, topology, and interesting properties of numbers, logic, and probability.
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