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Class : 3
Subject : Maths
Chapter : 5
Chapter Name : Shapes And Designs
Q1 Colour the clown following the directions given below:
Page : 61 , Block Name : Have Fun With Shapes
Q2 How many triangles are there in the following figures?
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Q3 Find the biggest rectangle in the figures given below.
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Page : 62 , Block Name : Have Fun With Shapes
Q1 Meeta and her 5 friends were playing a game. Tinku was blindfolded and asked to keep clapping as long as he wished while
the others would move round a table. The moment Tinku stopped clapping, everybody would stop wherever they were. The child
who was not at a corner would be out. Then she would be blindfolded.
(a) Looking at the picture given above, can you tell who is out?
(b) Where is Guddu standing?
(c) Can this game be played around a round table? Why?
Answer. (a) Guddu is out because he is not standing at any of the corners of the table.
(b) Guddu is standing in the middle of one of the sides of the table.
(c) No, this game cannot be played around a round table because a round table has no corners.
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Q1 (a) Look around you and identify things with straight and curved edges.
(b) Do the things with straight edges have corners?
(c) Do the things with curved edges have corners?
(d) Try to find things which have both straight and curved edges.
Answer. (a) A book, an eraser and a page have straight edges and a cylinder, a pen and a bowl have curved edges.
(b) Yes, things with straight edges have corners.
(c) No, things with curved edges do not have corners.
(d) A pencil, a capsule and a knife have straight and curved edges. Disclaimer: The answer may vary from student to student,
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based on his/her observation. It is highly recommended that the students prepare the answer on their own.
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Q1 Look at the following table and tick (✓) the names of things that have corners. Also count the number of edges and corners in
each of them.
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Q2 In the following figures, tick (✓) those which have corners. Do these figures have curved lines?
Using only straight lines, can you draw a figure which has no corners?
Yes, two of the given figures have curved lines.Using straight lines, it is not possible to draw a figure that has no corners.
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Q1 How many triangles do you have in your set? Are all of them equal in size? Find out.
Answer. There are three triangles in a set. Only two out of the three are equal in size. We can check that by measuring the sides of
the triangles.
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Q2 Use the two small triangles in the tangram set to get the following shapes:
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Answer. (1) Use triangles 2 and 5 to get the figure of a square.
(2) Use triangles 2 and 5 to get the figure of a triangle.
(3) Use triangles 2 and 5 to get the figure of a parallelogram.
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Q3 Which two pieces of the tangram set are exactly same? Find out.
Answer. Pieces 2 and 5 are exactly the same. We can check that by measuring them with a scale.
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Q4 Take pieces 4 and 5 from the set and find out on which side of the triangle you can join the other piece.
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Q5 Find matching sides among the following pairs of pieces.
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a) Pieces 1 and 2
b) Pieces 2 and 4
c) Pieces 1 and 5
d) Pieces 2 and 5
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Q1 Use only triangles
Page : 68 , Block Name : The 7–Piece Tangram
Q2 Use pieces 1, 2, 3 and 5
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Page : 68 , Block Name : The 7–Piece Tangram
Q3 Use only two triangles
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Q4 Use pieces 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
Page : 68 , Block Name : The 7–Piece Tangram
Q1 Which geometrical shapes can you identify in these borders? Draw them in your notebook.
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Page : 69 , Block Name : Weaving Patterns
Q2 Is any shape repeating in a particular pattern? Which ones?
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Q3 Are the shapes made of
(i) Curved lines
(ii) Straight lines
(iii) Both curved and straight lines.
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Answer. The shapes are made of both curved and straight lines.
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Q4 Look at your clothes, your mother’s saris/shawls, rugs and mats. Can you identify some patterns? Draw them in your
notebook.
Answer. DIY
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Q4 Look at your clothes, your mother’s saris/shawls, rugs and mats. Can you identify some patterns? Draw them in your
notebook.
Answer. DIY
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Q1 Among the following, can you match the tiles with the designs that they will make on the floor? Draw lines to match.
You can also make your own tiles and use them to make your own tiling patterns. You will find some such tiles at the end of the
book that you can cut out, trace and colour.
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Q2 Complete the following tiling pattern.
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Page : 71 , Block Name : Weaving Patterns
Q3 Complete this pattern. Compare it with the pattern on page 70 which also uses six sided shapes. What is the difference
between the two?
Both the shapes are regular hexagons. The only difference is that on rotating any one of the shapes by 90 degree , another shape
appears.
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Q4 Khushboo and Hariz live in Agra. One day they went to see the Taj Mahal. The floor had the pattern shown below:
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Answer. I think the same type of tile is used in the floor pattern in two directions: horizontal and vertical.
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