07 January 2009

Travelling Friend Update


We have had so much fun reading about Pooh's travels!  Today Maisie and I sat down and calculated the miles travelled so far.  This time, we're using the "cheating method" of using the internet, but next time we'll learn about how to calculate distance using a ruler and the map legend.  For now, we're mastering numbers and addition of larger numbers as well as time zones.

Maisie wrote down all of the mileage between cities (this isn't exact--there were a few short
 road trips during visits we didn't take into account):

Denver to Portsmouth:  2,019 miles
Portsmouth to Budapest, Hungary:  4,128 miles
Budapest, Hungary to Portsmouth: 4,128 miles
Portsmouth to Woburn, MA: 44 miles
Woburn, MA to Windsor, Ontario, Canada: 606 miles
Windsor, Ontario, Canada to Salt Lake City, Utah:  1,490 miles

Total Mileage: 12,415 Miles     OR  19,918 Kilometers  ( 1 mile = 1.609344 kilometers)

So far, we've had Pooh in 3 time zones:  Mountain, Eastern and +8 from Denver in Budapest.  Maisie learned that when it's noon in Denver, it's 2 p.m. in Windsor, New Hampshire and
 Massachusetts.  It's the same time in Utah and bedtime (8 p.m.) in Budapest, Hungary.


A very big
to Mary, Carl, April, Brannon, Melissa, Gabriella, Mandy and Tessa for their help in this project!

Dawn

1 comments:

Kathy_in_Colorado January 12, 2009 at 6:38 PM  

I love the way you tallied the miles - what a great idea - Dawn, I am so enjoying watching where Pooh goes - the boys and I track him on our map

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