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Suggested Transactional
Key Concepts Learning Outcomes
Processes
• Discussing examples to show
the difference between ratio and
proportion and to relate them
• Solving daily life problems
related to unitary method that
exist in children’s daily life like
while shopping finding out the
rate etc.

Algebra
Suggested Transactional
Key Concepts Learning Outcomes
Processes
• Introduction to constants, variable Students will be able to: • Revising previous concepts learnt
and unknown through patterns • describe variable and unknown by children
and through appropriate word through patterns and through • Building on children’s previous
problems and generalisations appropriate word problems and learning
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(For example 1+3=2 , 1+3+5=3 , generalise (example 5 × 1 = 5, • Providing situations in which
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1+3+5+7=4 , sum of first n odd etc.); a pattern or phenomenon is to
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numbers = n .) • generate patterns with more be generalised like area of a
• Generate such patterns with more examples; rectangle can be obtained by
examples and generalisation • understand unknowns through multiplying the measure of its
• Introduction to unknowns examples with simple contexts two adjacent sides
through examples with simple (single operations); • Encouraging children to find
contexts (single operations) • define terminology associated ways to represent this in shorter
with algebra like literal numbers,
• Terminology associated with terms, expressions, factor, and more compact way by
algebra—like literal numbers, coefficient, polynomials, degree, considering the two adjacent
terms, expressions, factor, like and unlike terms; sides as l and b or S and S 2
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coefficient, polynomials, degree, • frame algebraic expressions; • Providing situations which can
like and unlike terms • evaluate value of algebraic be mathematically expressed by
• Framing algebraic expressions expressions by substituting a using numbers and letters in place
• Evaluation of algebraic number for the variable. of numbers like any even number
expressions by substituting a is double of a natural number can
value for the variable be expressed as: Even number =
• Introduction to linear equation in 2n, where n is a natural number
one variable
Geometry
Suggested Transactional
Key Concepts Learning Outcomes
Processes
• Basic Geometrical Ideas Students will be able to:
(2D): Introduction to geometry. • differentiate between different • Revising previous concepts
Its linkage with and reflection in geometrical figures on the basis of learnt by children
everyday experiences their observable properties; • Building on children’s previous
Line, line segment, ray • classify angle into different types learning
on the basis of their measurement;
Open and closed figures • understand the difference between • Performing activities in which
Interior and exterior of closed different types of triangles and the students can be shown concrete
figures basis on which they are classified; models and pictures of different
geometrical shapes