Skills:Representing and interpreting data, fractions, decimals, ratio, length measuring.

Resources: Measuring tape (one per two pupils), string, record table (see below).

Activity: Divide pupils into groups of two. Introduce pupils to Leonardo Da Vinci’s concept of human proportions. Show them how to properly measure parts of their body using a measuring tape. Pupils, in pairs, write theirs measurements to the worksheet.

Questions: How many pupils have the exact Vitruvian proportions? How many children do not have the Vitruvian proportion? Why don’t they?