MathXplosion

Eight Heads Tall

Put your heads together to figure out this experiment: we are approximately eight of our own heads tall. It's not magic... it's math! The Educational Gist: This episode is about non-standard measurement units and the application of proportions to art, by reinforcing the notion that reliable measurement units can be derived from representational objects in the everyday world. This is an illustration of the concept of anthropometry: the built in ratios for body measurements first proposed by Leonardo DaVinci.