Math Lesson:  IditarodAnimal Weights and Measures

Area (or easily adapted to only use Length) – Sled Dog Footprint (adapted from Audubon Zoo workshop)

Skills: Number sense, estimation, standard and non-standard area, polygon shapes, problem solving, graphing, and multiplication/division
Literature connection: Measuring Penny by Loreen Leedy (focus on part where dog paw prints widths are being measured)   (Optional: If choose to only do length of footprint versus paw print, could use How Big is a Foot? by Rolf Myller.)

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Deanna Blazejewski
Special Education Teacher
Mount Iliamna Elementary
Anchorage School District

Original Posting Date:  May 27, 2009