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Recommended for: Grades 3-5

Resource: Catching the Kidnapper

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Length: 2m 49s
Size: 7.8 MB

In this video segment from Cyberchase, someone has kidnapped Chewcrocca, a giant cybercrocodile. The CyberSquad must act as crime scene investigators as they search for the kidnapper. Their only clues are a footprint and a handprint. They create a physical profile of the suspect by using the footprint and handprint as non-standard measures, build a model, and then compare the three suspects to their model.

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Teachers' Domain, Catching the Kidnapper, published October 8, 2008, retrieved on ,
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/vtl07.math.measure.sys.catchkidna/

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What is Frame, Focus and Follow-up?

Frame: Before there were standard measuring tools, like rulers and yardsticks, what do you think people might have used when they wanted to measure the length of something? If you wanted to measure a distance on your face, for example, between your eyes or from your nose to your lip, what part of your body might you use? You may want to test this out with a friend.

Focus: In this video segment, the CyberSquad reviews some of the information they discovered about the physical size of the cybercrocodile kidnapper. What did they find out about foot length and height? What did they find out about their own arm spans as well as the arm span of the kidnapper?