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Detailed Contents

Each chapter contains different exercises which include the following:
• Multiple Choice Questions • Solve Mentally (True or False/Fill in the Blanks/Answer in One Word or a Line)
• Let’s Evaluate (long and short calculations) • Thinking Skills
• Values and Life skills • NCERT Textbook Questions
• Exemplar Problems
Chapter Contents Tasks to Perform
1. Knowing Our Natural and Whole Numbers, Indian and • Group Activity (Forming 5-digit numbers)
Numbers International System of Numeration, Face — Team Spirit, Thinking Skills
Value and Place Value, Comparison of
Numbers, Standard Units of Measurement,
Estimation, Brackets, Roman Numerals
2. Whole Numbers Successor and Predecessor, Addition, • Reason It Out!
Subtraction and Multiplication of Whole — Thinking Skills, Logical Reasoning
Numbers on a Number Line, Properties of • Quiz
Whole Numbers, Division Algorithm, Patterns — Conceptual Understanding, Thinking
Skills
3. Playing with Factors and Their Properties, Multiples and • Maths Lab Activity (Finding factors of a
Numbers Their Properties, Types of Numbers, Sieve of number)
Eratosthenes, Tests of Divisibility, Common — Observation Skills, Conceptual
Factors and Multiples, Co-prime Numbers, Understanding
Some Properties of Divisibility, Prime • Maths Lab Activity (Worksheet)
Factorization, Highest Common Factor (HCF), — Conceptual Understanding, Thinking
Lowest Common Multiple (LCM) Skills
• Reason It Out!
— Reasoning, Analysis
4. Basic Geometric Point, Line and Line Segment, Intersecting • Maths Lab Activity (Lines passing
Concepts Lines, Parallel Lines, Collinear Points, through given points)
Concurrent Lines, Distance Between Two — Observation Skills, Application of
Parallel Lines, Ray and Its Properties, Plane, Concepts
Open and Closed Figures, Polygons, Angle, • Maths Lab Activity (Understanding a
Triangle, Quadrilateral, Circle (chord, secant, circle and its properties)
arc, segment, circumference, sector, semicircle — Learning Skills, Conceptual
and semicircular region, concentric circles) Understanding

5. Understanding Line Segment and Their Comparison, • Maths Lab Activity (Understanding a
Elementary Magnitude of an Angle, Comparison of rhombus and its properties)
Shapes Angles, Special Angles, Different Types of — Observation Skills, Conceptual
Angles, Measuring an Angle by a Protractor, Understanding, Deductive Reasoning,
Perpendicular Lines, Classification of Triangles, Interpretation
Types of Quadrilaterals, Polygons, Three-
Dimensional Shapes
6. Integers Integers and Their Representation on a • Maths Lab Activity (Addition of integers)
Number Line, Ordering of Integers, Absolute — Conceptual Understanding
Value of an Integer, Addition and Subtraction • Problems Related to Thinking Skills,
of Integers on a Number Line — Thinking, Problem Solving
7. Fractions Representation of Fractions on a Number • Problems Related to Thinking Skills
Line, Proper, Improper and Mixed Fractions, — Thinking, Problem Solving
Changing an Improper Fraction into a Mixed • Maths Lab Activity (Addition of like
Fraction, Changing a Mixed Fraction into fractions)
an Improper Fraction, Equivalent Fractions, — Conceptual Understanding,
Simplest Form of a Fraction, Like and Unlike Verification
Fractions, Comparison of Fractions, Addition
and Subtraction of Fractions
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