Crazy Canine Records

A greyhound named Cinderella May holds the record for the highest dog jump. She leaped 172.7 centimeters (cm). 

Draw a place value chart. Circle the place value that is 10 times less than the tens place.

Milly is a Chihuahua that holds the Guinness World Record for the smallest dog by height, 9.65 cm. Two other tiny Chihuahuas measure 10.65 cm and 9.8 cm.

Order the heights from least to greatest.

In 2013, Jumpy, a mixed breed dog, traveled 100 meters on a skateboard in 19.63 seconds. Jumpy beat the previous record set by Tillman, a bulldog. Tillman skateboarded 100 meters in 19.678 seconds.

Use the place value chart below to prove that Jumpy’s record is a faster time than Tillman’s.

A Missouri pet company baked the world’s largest dog biscuit in 2011. It weighed 279.87 kilograms.

Round that weight to the nearest whole number. Then write and solve a multiplication sentence to estimate about how much the dog biscuit weighed in pounds. (1 kilogram = 2.2 pounds)