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Title - Leap Year Day
by - Lorah A. Perry
Subject - Math, Science, Computers & Internet, Other
Grade Level - 4-8
Today is a special and unusual day that happens only once every 4 years. To find out about this day go here
to answer the following questions.
1) When did the practice of adding a day to the calendar begin?
2) Because everyone in the world had different time measuring tools, there were problems. What were the 4 problems listed?
3) To temporarily solve this how many days were added to the Julian Calendar in 46 BC?
4) What did the astronomer Sosigenes calculate the length of a year to be?
5) What did Sosigenes use to find these calculations?
6) What was his solution?
7) Why was the day added to February?
8) This was not a permanent solution. Christopher Clavius recalculated the data. What did he do with his results and a solution?
9) Who was the Pope and what did he do?
10) What was Clavius' solution?
11) What do we call the year 2000?
12) How long do we estimate a year to be? a day?
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