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Work in a group and each of you use your handspan as a unit to measure the width of a table or a desk in the classroom.
Measuring the table using hand
You may need string lengths equal to your handspan and then fractions of this string length to make the measurement. Record all observations in given table.
| Who measured the width of the table? | Number of handspans |
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Are everybody's measurement of the width of the table equal?
, the measurements of the width of the table using everybody's hand is . A refers to the length of one's hand and it of an table. It is because the length of one person's hand as the other person.
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