Who has the longest tongue? It may be Adrianne Lewis, whose tongue sticks out 4 inches and can lick her own nose, chin, eyeball, and even her elbow. But the real winner may be the anteater, whose tongue can be as long as its whole head and stick out 2 feet! The anteater uses it to eat, you guessed it…ants. We people would probably rather lick our eyeballs.
Lace up: Try to lick your left elbow. Now try to lick your right elbow! Did you reach either one?
Jog: If your tongue is 3 inches long and it needs to be 7 inches long to reach your eyeball, how much longer a tongue do you need?
Sprint: If your pet anteater’s tongue is 3 times as long as your 3-inch tongue, how long is it?
Hurdle: If you lick your eyeball, then your chin, then your nose, then your elbow, then start over with your eyeball to repeat…which part gets the 27th lick?
High Jump: Imagine you’re 7 feet 4 inches tall like an NBA player. Now imagine your tongue is 1/4 of your height! How long is your tongue?
Pole Vault: If your pet anteater’s body and its tongue are together 80 inches long, and the body is 3 times as long as the tongue, how long is each one?
Answers:
Lace up: See if you can learn your right from left!
Jog: 4 inches longer.
Sprint: 9 inches.
Hurdle: Your nose, since it’s before your elbow which lands on all the multiples of 4 (including 28).
High Jump: 22 inches, or 1 foot 10 inches. Your height = 7 x 12 + 4 = 88 inches. 88 x 1/4 = 88 / 4 = 22.
Pole Vault: The tongue is 20 inches, and the body is 60 inches. The body is like 3 tongues, so the body plus the tongue are like *4* tongues all together. These 4 tongue lengths add up to 80 inches. So 1/4 of 80 is 20 inches for 1 tongue.
