Tag – I’m It Jon Jasken

Identify the Problem or Ask your question  I like playing tag at recess, but I don’t like being “it”. Sometimes I am tagged a lot and sometimes I never get tagged. I wonder if the kind of shoe I’m wearing makes me faster.

Hypothesis  I think I will run faster in my Reeboks because they are tighter on my foot.

Plan and Organize My Experiment  I have 3 pairs of shoes that I usually wear to school; Rebooks, dress shoes, and sandals. I am going to run from the front of my house to the back wearing each shoe and have my mom time me. I am going to run with each shoe 3 times. I am also going to give myself a break between each running so I am not tired. The variable is the type of shoe, so I will keep everything else the same.

Organize and Analyze Data  I took the three times for each shoe and found the average for each. Then I used Excel to create a bar graph with the information.

Reebok 16 sec 14 sec 12 sec Dress shoe 16 sec 14 sec Sandal 21 sec 25 sec 23 sec

Conclusions  The sandals were the slowest type of shoe. I think this is because they kept flopping around on my feet when I was running. I was faster in the Reeboks but not by much. I don’t think I can say that I am always faster in my Reeboks because the times were so close, but I know that I will be easier to tag if I am wearing my sandals.