Math Concepts: Perimeter, Area The Three Little Pigs

1 Once upon a time, Three Little pigs went out in theworld to make their fortunes. The first Little pig, wholiked to rough it, pitched a tent on top of a hill. Soon, along came a wolf who lived in theneighborhood. Little pig, Little pig, let me come in! he begged. Not by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin, answered the first Little pig. It s huffing and puffing. It llblow your house in, warned thewolf as he ran around the tent. Suddenly, the tent wasswept into the air. With thewolf at his heels, the firstlittle pig ran to the second littlepig s house. Sister, sister, letme in! cried the first Little second Little pig, whoadmired Abe Lincoln, had builta log cabin out of sticks.

2 Shethrew open the door for her littlebrother, and the two of thempeered out the window at the wolf. Little pigs , Little pigs , let me come in, whined the wolf. Not by the hair of our chinny-chin-chins, answeredthe pigs . It s huffing and puffing. It ll blow your house in, warned the wolf as ran around the log cabin. Suddenly, the Little cabin was blown into the air. Withthe wolf close behind, the two Little pigs raced to theirbrother s house. Brother, brother, let us in! they Three Little PigsMath Concepts: Perimeter, Area20 Funny Fairy Tale math Betsy Franco, Scholastic Teaching ResourcesThe Three Little PigsMath Concepts: Perimeter, Area21 The third Little pig, who wanted to become anarchitect, had built a handsome brick house.

3 He let hisbrother and sister in and slammed the door. Little pigs , Little pigs , let me come in, whined the wolf. Not by the hair of our chinny-chin-chins, answeredthe pigs . It s huffing and puffing. It ll blow your house in, warned the wolf. The wolf ran around the brick house,begging the pigs to let him third Little pig scratched his head. What do youmean, it llblow your house in? he asked the wolf. A hurricane s coming. It blew down my house, the tent, and the log cabin! It will hit here soon! said the wolf. Please let me in. I need a place to wait out the storm! Peeking out a window, thethird Little pig saw a hurricanecoming their way.

4 I m sorrywolf, but what pig in his rightmind ever let a meat-eatingwolf into his house? I don t eat meat! I m avegetarian! cried the wolf. Heheld up his membership cardto the Veggies-Only Club. Come on in, then, saidthe third pig. We ll wait outthe storm in my for the warning, Wolf! From that day on, the threelittle pigs and the vegetarianwolf were the best of Fairy Tale math Betsy Franco, Scholastic Teaching the wolf ran around the firstlittle pig s tent, how many metersdid he run? meters the wolf raced around thesecond Little pig s log cabin, howmany meters did he run?

5 Meters the wolf ran around the thirdlittle pig s brick house, how manymeters did he run? meters Which operation did you use to solvethis problem? The Three Little PigsUse the drawings below to answer questions 1 8. is the area of the floor of the tent? square meters is the area of the floor of the log cabin?square meters Complete each sentence. area of the log cabin istimes the area of the tent. area of the brick house issquare meters. area of the brick house istimes the area of the tent. 22 The floor inside the firstlittle pig s tent was 3 m long and 3 m floor inside the secondlittle pig s log cabin was 9 m long and 3 m floor inside the thirdlittle pig s brick house was 9 m long and 9 m m3 m3 m3 m3 m3 m9 m9 m9 m9 m9 m9 mFunny Fairy Tale math Betsy Franco, Scholastic Teaching Resources