Math-Magic Book 5 - Textbook for Class V (Activity Book)

206 Pages·2002·29.23 MB·English

by  Shveta Uppal

Math-Magic, Book 5
Textbook for Class V

by

Shveta Uppal

National Council for Education

Training and Research (NCERT) of India
Publication Department
National Council of Education Research and Training
Sri Aurobindo Marg , New Delhi- 1100 16

2008
ISBN 10: 8174508287
ISBN 13: 9788174508287
Foreword

The National Curriculum Framework, 2005, recommends that children’s life at school must be linked to their life
outside the school. This principle marks a departure from the legacy of bookish learning which continues to shape our
system and causes a gap between the school, home and community.

The syllabi and textbooks developed on the basis of NCF signify an attempt to implement this basic idea. They also
attempt to discourage rote learning and the maintenance of sharp boundaries between different subject areas. We
hope these measures will take us significantly further in the direction of a child-centered system of education outlined
in the National Policy on Education (1986).

The success of this effort depends on the steps that school principals and teachers will take to encourage children to
reflect on their own learning and to pursue imaginative activities and questions. We must recognize that, given space,
time and freedom, children generate new knowledge by engaging with the information passes on to them by adults.

Treating the prescribed textbook as the sole basis of examination is one of the key reasons why other resources and
sites of learning are ignored. Inculcating creativity and initiative is possible if we perceive and treat children as
participants in learning, not as receivers of a fixed body of knowledge.

These aims imply considerable change in school routines and mode functioning. Flexibility in the daily time-table is as
necessary as rigor in implementing the annual calendar so that the required number of teaching days is actually
devoted to teaching. The methods used for teaching and evaluation will also determine how effective this textbook
proves for making children’s life at school a happy experience, rather than a source of stress or boredom.

Syllabus designers have tried to address the problem of curricular burden by restructuring and reorienting knowledge
at different stages with greater consideration for child psychology and the time available for teaching. The textbook
attempts to enhance this endeavor by giving higher priority and space to opportunities for contemplation and
wondering, discussion in small groups, and activities requiring hands-on experience.
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What is inside this book?
1. Where to Look From 1
2. Fun with Numbers 13
3. Give and Take 29
4. Long and Short 46
5. Shapes and Designs 60
6. Fun with Give and Take 76
7. Time Goes On....... 95
8. Who is Heavier? 113
9. How Many Times? 122
10. Play with Patterns 144
11. Jugs and Mugs 153
12. Can We Share? 160
13. Smart Charts! 177
14. Rupees and Paise 190
1 Where to Look From
Our teacher told us to draw a picture of a
car. We all drew the car differently. Next
day, when we showed our pictures to each
other, we were very excited. But Anshul
started laughing. He was looking at
Dheeraj's drawing of a car.
Anshul said — it looks like a small box
kept in a bigger one. Then Anshul
showed his drawing to Dheeraj.
Both of them drew the picture of the same
car. But the drawings look different.
Dheeraj said he had looked at the car from the terrace. Do
you think his funny drawing is right?
Have you looked at things from different
sides?
Do they look the same or different?
Look at the pictures drawn here. How
does the table look from the side?
Which picture is from the top?
Some pictures are drawn below. Imagine how these things will
look if seen from the top.
Will they look like this?
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Practice Time
A. A cat is peeping into
a classroom.
Can you help her find out
where the teacher is?
B. Here are some pictures. Find out from where you have to
look to see the things this way.
Staircase Staircase Table
Chair Pencil Bus
C.Draw top views of a few things and ask your friends to guess
what they are.
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Rangoli
Have you ever made
a rangoli?
I am Meenakshi.
My friend Meenakshi
I belong to Tamil Nadu. We
makes beautiful floor
make Kolam patterns every
patterns.
morning. They are made by
using dots.
You can also try and use the dots given below to make patterns.
Two examples have been drawn here.
3
Make Other Patterns Yourself
1. Copy these shapes on the dot grid. Note that some lines in
the shapes are straight and some are not.
4
2. Use the dot grid given below to draw your own designs and
shapes.
3. Complete these figures to make squares and rectangles.
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