Measuring the Distance Around the Earth

On Friday, we met with a few friends to do a math experiment to measure the distance around the Earth. Denise led the experiment. We just brought along a few supplies.

The explanation of the experiment & what we're measuring. 

Denise explaining the graphing. 

Marking and measuring the shadow. 

Preparing their graph paper. 

Marking the points. 

Marking the points. 

Marking the points. 

Marking the points. 

Time to calculate.

After the experiment we compared our totals to the actual distance and found out that our margin of error was less than 2%.