Home-Grown Growth Curves
Do you find yourself pregnant, and wanting some mathematical amusement? Here’s something simple and pleasing.
During the course of the pregnancy, use a lamp to project your silhouette on the wall once a week. Have someone trace the outline in pencil.
You might want to write the date next to each curve. (You might also want to do the tracing onto a large piece of paper affixed to the wall, rather than onto the wall itself.)
[NOTE: It may be that this is an old form of amusement, but that we simply haven't heard of it. In any event, it is not as widely known as it might be. To help remedy that, we would love to post links to a few good sets of growth curves. When you have produced your full set, we invite you to post a photo of it on your web site and send us the URL that points to that photo. We would like to then publish a set of links to the first few, as examples that others may follow.]