Are you a square or a rectangle?

Thanks everyone!  Here are our results:

From our data, we did find a pattern.  It seem that all toddlers are rectangles and starting at around age 5 they become squares and grow up and remain squares.  We're assuming that babies are born as rectangles.

We learned that Leonardo da Vinci had played around with this fact as well.  An adult's arm span = his height.  Cool!  That's what this famous drawing is depicting.  I never knew what it was.  Now we know!  We did find a few exceptions in our data but for the most part it was totally true.

Measure your height (the distance from your head to your toes) and your arm span (the distance from the longest finger on your left hand to the longest finger on your right hand). If your height and arm span are about the same, then you're a square. If they're different, you're a rectangle.

We thought that we would all be rectangles but Ethan and I turned out to be a squares and Emily is a rectangle but barely.  She's almost a square.  We read somewhere that there might be a pattern to this - maybe age or maybe gender.  So we'd like those of you reading this to measure yourselves and email us your results so we can see if we can find a pattern. 

Squares and Rectangles by Zoom

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