View video clips "Twice round the thumb is once round the wrist," said the Lilliputians in Gulliver's Travels. Students here investigate whether or not the Lilliputians, who used this ratio to make a shirt for the giant Gulliver, were right. The lesson demonstrates the integrated approach to mathematics that the MATH Thematics Curriculum takes, with students using and gaining knowledge and skills in number sense, ratios, fractions, measurement, making predications, analysis, and geometric concepts.

After exploring and interpreting several different body ratios, students determine how tall Gulliver would be if a Lilliputian's average height were that of a sixth grader. The lesson extends to the outdoors, where students make a life-size outline of a shirt for Gulliver.