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- Jesse Owens won the long jump competition in 1936.
- How far did he jump?
- Is the distance Jesse Owens jumped longer or shorter than the length of your classroom?
- How many years passed before someone jumped farther than Jesse Owens in the Olympics?
- Describe the graph. What does it look like?
- If you read the graph from left to right, do the points tend to go uphill or downhill?
- What does the graph tell you about the winning long jumps in the Olympics?
- In 1968 Bob Beamon of the United States won the long jump competition.
- How far did Beamon jump?
- What is unusual about this point on the graph?
- Do you think the winner in 2016 will jump as far as Bob Beamon jumped in 1968? Why or why not?
