Parachutes Fourth Class

Ms Mangan’s fourth class enjoyed making parachutes seeing how they operated. Here are the results:

Some questions about the results:

• Which parachute was the quickest to touch the ground without any coins?
• Which parachute was the slowest to touch the ground without any coins?
• Which parachute was the quickest to touch the ground with coins?
• Which parachute was the slowest to touch the ground with coins?
• Can you identify things that would have influenced the time that that the parachutes took to touch the ground?
• Was this a fair test?
  • If yes why?
  • If not, how could we make this a fair test?