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3. Think of many different things that can take different times. Make your table as
long as you can.

Takes minutes Takes hours Takes days

a bath to stitch a shirt to knit a sweater

to boil milk to set curd to weave a sari

a school day for a banana to
become ripe

VALUES AND LIFE SKILLS

1. Rashi goes for a walk everyday at 6:30 in the morning and returns at 7:30. For
how much time does she walk daily? Why should we go for a morning walk

daily?
2. Hariti starts her homework at quarter to 5. If she finishes it in 1 hour, at what
time does she finish her homework? How many hours do you spend in doing
your homework?

SCRATCH YOUR BRAIN

Devesh’s mother bakes a cake for him. She starts at 11 o’clock. She takes 20 minutes
for the preparation and then puts the cake in the oven. It takes 50 minutes for the
cake to bake. She takes 10 more minutes for icing the cake. When was the cake ready?

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