I found a great book'Zoo Math" at the library using real life problems that real zoo vets need to use math to solve. Today Tui had to help choose the best crate design to transport Twizzle the Giraffe to her new home. Twizzle is 4.2m high and 3.5m wide and she needed a crate taller and wider than her. Using a process of elimination(taking into acount other things such as the placing of the ventilation holes and the type of roof) she had to had to decide on the best crate for Twizzle. Tui also had to convert metres into centimetres to work out the Giraffes height and legnth in centimetres and then Jake, Pearl and Dad measured out 420 cm to put the size into perspective! Check out the photo (with them at the top of the fence) and imagine the head at the top of the tape measure! The photo of Pearl sitting on the pole is of her measuring the height (200cm) of a baby Giraffe (called a calf.) They were blown away at how tall they are and even more impressed that a male is even taller!
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when we lived in auckland (three and a half years ago.. and counting lol) we were friends of the zoo which means that we could turn up any time we wanted and just pop in and see the seals or lions... or stay all day. and we were invited to the "behind the scenes" stuff too.... we went to see the giraffes and fed celery to the baby boy. it was very special.
they are so graceful when they walk..
i really miss the zoo !!!!!
Wow, that sounds wicked! Pity we don't have the same opprtunity here...
I really miss Auckland for the Zoo and the Museum too, but thats all, they haven't got our beaches lol.
There are a whole series of the maths books you have we have 2 of them out of the library at the moment.
Looks like you all had fun with the giraffe schoolwork.
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