NCERT Solutions Class 5 Maths Chapter 14 Maps and Locations

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Chapter 14: Maps and Locations

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Class 5 Maths Chapter 14 Maps and Locations AglaSem · NCERT Solutions

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NCERT Solutions — Chapter 14: Maps and Locations
Chapter 14 of Math Mela is about finding your way. You stand facing the rising Sun and learn the four
directions — east, west, north and south. Then you read four kinds of maps: a bird-watching camp, a
bedroom, a street map with a school-bus route, and the Delhi Metro map. At the end an ant walks on a
centimetre grid, and a zoo map teaches you to name a place with two numbers, like (4,1).

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Finding Directions … — Page 171
Manu faces the rising Sun; the Siberian Crane and the four little chicks

FINDING DIRECTIONS

Q1 Manu is facing the rising Sun. That direction is ___________.

That direction is east.
The Sun rises on one side of the sky every single morning. We have given that side a name —
east. So if you face the morning Sun, you are facing east.

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rising Sun
Face the morning Sun — you are facing east.

left hand facing east

Manu
The rising Sun always shows you east.

Why it happens: The Earth turns round and round once a day, always the same way.
Because of that turning, the Sun seems to come up on the same side of the sky
every morning. People long ago gave that side the name east, so that everybody
could describe the same direction with the same word.

Check it yourself: Go outside early tomorrow and face the Sun. Now look for the
same spot in the evening — the Sun will be behind you, going down in the west.

Q2 His left hand is pointing in the _______ direction.

His left hand points to the north.
Do it yourself, step by step. It takes ten seconds.

1. Stand up and face the rising Sun. You are now facing east.
2. Stretch both arms out to the sides, like the boy in the picture.
3. Look at your left arm. It is pointing to north.

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N (left hand)

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Manu, facing east

S (right hand)
Face east: north is on your left, south is on your right, west is behind you.

Tip: On almost every map, north is drawn at the top. So if you turn your map so that
north is up, the map is facing the same way as the world outside.

Q3 His right hand is pointing in the ____________ direction.

His right hand points to the south.

Facing east

Left hand → north
Right hand → south

Back → west

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Landmarks. Big rivers, coastlines and mountain ranges act as signposts, and old birds lead
young ones along the same path year after year.

Did you know? The Siberian Crane flies thousands of kilometres from the freezing
north of Russia to warm wetlands in India, such as the Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary in
Rajasthan. This long yearly journey is called migration.

Why it matters here: The chapter opens with birds for a reason. A bird finding its
way and you finding your way both start with the same question — which direction
am I going?

Bird Watching! — Page 172
Read the clues and colour the tents in the camp

BIRD WATCHING!

Q1 The tent to the west of the road is blue.

Colour the tent at the top-left blue. It is the only tent on the left-hand side of the road.
Find it in three steps.

1. Look at the direction arrow beside the picture. North is up, so west is to the left.
2. Find the road. It is the grey strip with white dashes, curving down the picture.
3. Look on the left side of that road. There is exactly one tent there. That is the blue tent.

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The whole camp, with all four clues done and the new tent drawn east of the lake.

Why it happens: "West of the road" does not mean anywhere on the left of the
page. It means on the west side of that road. Only one tent is there — the other three
are all on the east side.

Q2 The tent closest to the lake is green.

Colour the middle tent — the one standing just above the lake — green.

1. Find the lake. It is the blue patch with the ducks on it.
2. Look at each tent and ask how far it is from the lake. The tent right at the top edge of the
lake is nearest. The others are far away.
3. That nearest tent is the green one. It lies just to the north of the lake.

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Tip: "Closest" is about distance, not direction. Put your finger on the lake and slide it
to each tent. The shortest slide wins.

Q3 The tent north of the green tent is purple.

Colour the upper tent — the one on the right of the road, near the yellow-leaved trees —
purple.

1. Start at the green tent (the one beside the lake).
2. Go straight up the page. North is up, so up means north.
3. The next tent you meet is the purple one. It is the tent standing east of the road, higher
up the picture.

Why it happens: Directions on a map are always taken from some place. Here the
starting place is the green tent, not the lake and not you. So you must first colour
the green tent, then look north from it.

Q4 The tent south of the lake is yellow.

Colour the bottom tent — the one below the lake — yellow.

1. Find the lake again.
2. Go straight down the page from it. South is down.
3. The tent you reach is the yellow one. It stands in the lower part of the camp, east of the
road.

All four tents now:

West of the road → blue

Closest to the lake → green

North of the green tent → purple

South of the lake → yellow

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Check it yourself: The camp has exactly four tents and you have used exactly four
colours, with no tent left out and none coloured twice. That means every clue has
been read correctly.

Q5 Now, draw a tent to the east of the lake.

Draw a new tent on the right-hand side of the lake, in the open grassy space between the
lake and the trees at the right edge.

1. Check the direction arrow. East points to the right.
2. Put your pencil on the lake and move it straight to the right.
3. Draw a small tent there — a triangle with a little flag on top, like the other tents.

The dotted tent in the drawing above shows a good place for it.

Try this: Now write your own clue for a friend, using the same style — for example,
"Draw a tree to the south-west of the yellow tent." Then check whether your friend puts
it in the right place.

Map of a Room — Page 172
Write the directions of the following in relation to the girl

MAP OF A ROOM

Q1 Write the directions of the following in relation to the girl. Window _____________

The window is to the north of the girl.
Here is how to read the picture.

1. Find the direction arrow printed beside the room. N is at the top, E on the right, S at the
bottom, W on the left.
2. Find the girl. She is standing in the middle of the room.
3. Find the window. It is the barred opening on the far wall, right behind her.
4. The far wall is at the top of the picture, so it is the north wall. The window is therefore
north of the girl.

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Q3 Cupboard ___________

The cupboard is to the west of the girl. To be exact, it is north-west — it stands against the far
wall, on the left side.

1. Find the cupboard. It is the tall blue almirah with two doors.
2. It is on the girl's left, so it is towards the west.
3. It also touches the far wall, which is north. Left and a little behind is called north-west.

Why we can say both: Between north and west there is a corner direction, north-
west. Something in that corner can be described as "west" if you only want a rough
answer, and "north-west" if you want an exact one. Both show that you have read the
map correctly.

Q4 Bedside table ________

The bedside table is to the south-east of the girl — that is, to the right and in front of her.

1. Find the bedside table. It is the small round table with a glass and a bottle on it, at the foot
of the bed.
2. It is on the right of the girl → towards the east.
3. It is also nearer to us than she is, that is towards the bottom of the picture → towards the
south.
4. East and south together give south-east. Saying just "east" is also acceptable.

Window → north

Bed → east

Cupboard → west (north-west)

Bedside table → south-east (east)

Check it yourself: Stand in the middle of your own room and say aloud where four
things are. Then turn round once and say them again — the answers do not change,
because north stays north whichever way you face.

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Make a Map of Your Own Room — Page 173
Draw your room, mark the direction arrow, and list the things in each direction

LET US DO

Q1 Make a drawing of your room and locate the direction in which different things
have been placed in relation to you standing at the centre of the room. Make the
direction arrow for your room.

Do it in five steps. The empty blue box in your book is the space for the drawing.

1. Find east first. Early in the morning, stand in your room and see which wall the sunlight
comes through. That wall is roughly east.
2. Turn and face that wall. Left hand → north, right hand → south, back → west.
3. Draw the room as a rectangle, as if you were a bird looking down at it. Do not draw it from
the side.
4. Draw a small direction arrow in one corner of your drawing, with N, E, S and W marked, so
that north matches the real north of your room.
5. Draw the things in — bed, almirah, door, window, table, mat — each against the wall where
it really stands. Mark a small dot in the middle and write "me" on it.

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A sample room map, drawn from above with a direction
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Your own map will look different — but it must have the direction arrow and a dot for you.

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Sample answer: "My room is a rectangle. The window is on the north wall. The
almirah is on the west wall. My bed is on the east wall. The door is on the south wall.
I stand in the middle."

Why we draw from above: A map is always a view from above. Seen from above,
left and right on the paper can be matched to west and east in the real world. A side
view cannot do that.

Q2 Write the names of the things that are placed in the following directions. East
_____________________________________________________

Write the things that lie in the direction the E arrow points on your own map.

1. Stand at the dot marked "me" on your drawing.
2. Look along the arrow marked E.
3. Write down every object you meet in that direction.

Sample answer: East — my bed, the bedside table and the school bag hanging on the
wall.

Why the answer is yours alone: Every room faces a different way. Two friends can
both be right and still write completely different lists. What must be the same is the
method: find east from the Sun, mark it, then read your map.

Q3 West _____________________________________________________

Write the things that lie in the direction opposite to east on your map.

1. Stand at the "me" dot again.
2. Turn to face the W arrow. This is the wall the evening Sun shines on.
3. Write down the things you see on that side.

Sample answer: West — the almirah, the mirror and the small stool.

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Q4 North_____________________________________________________

Write the things that lie towards the N arrow on your map — the direction your left hand points
when you face east.

Sample answer: North — the window and the study table below it.

Tip: If a thing sits between two arrows, say both: "the study table is to the north-
east". That is more useful than forcing it into one word.

Q5 South _____________________________________________________

Write the things towards the S arrow — the direction your right hand points when you face
east.

Sample answer: South — the door and the shoe rack beside it.

Check your four lists like this:

Every big thing in the room appears in exactly one list.

Nothing has been written twice.

Nothing has been left out.

Why this task matters: Once you can turn your own room into a map, you can read
anybody's map — a camp map, a street map, even a metro map. It is all the same
skill: find north, then say where things are from where you stand.

Zoo Trip — Page 173

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4. For each child, trace along the roads from the house to each stop, and choose the shorter
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CHILD WHERE THE HOUSE IS STOP TO WALK TO

Lali far north-west corner Stop 1

Rohan west side, just south of Lali Stop 1

Tinku just south of Hospital Road Stop 1

Golu just south of Hospital Road, next to Tinku Stop 1

Jaideep middle of the map, beside Park Road Stop 2

Raju east side, south of Prem Stop 2

Ravi west side, middle either — the two walks are about equal

Prem east side, middle either — the two walks are about equal

Why the dotted line matters: A child cannot walk straight across a block — houses
and courts are in the way. You must go along the roads, and the bus must do the
same. That is why we count the walk along the roads, not the straight-line distance.

Bus Route — Page 174
Filling the blanks and answering (a)–(e) from the street map

BUS ROUTE

Q1 The bus will start from the parking area. It will go north and then it will take a right
turn onto ___________ Road driving in the ___________ direction to reach Stop 1(S1).

It takes a right turn onto Hospital Road, driving in the east direction.
Walk through it with the bus.

1. Step 1: The bus comes out of the parking area and drives north — up the page, along the
road that runs beside Ravi's, Rohan's and Lali's houses.
2. Step 2: It keeps going north until it reaches the road that runs in front of the HOSPITAL. That
road is named Hospital Road.
3. Step 3: It takes a right turn. It was facing north; turning right makes it face east.
4. Step 4: It drives east along Hospital Road and reaches S1, the stop in front of the hospital.

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turn right → now going east
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Facing north and turning right always means
you end up facing east.

Turn the compass with the bus and the blank fills itself.

Why right means east here: "Right" is not a fixed direction — it depends on which
way you are facing. Hold your book so that north is up, put your finger on the bus
facing north, then swing it a quarter turn to the right. Your finger now points to the
right of the page, and the right of the page is east.

Q2 To reach Stop 2(S2), it will turn _______ (right/left) onto ___________ Road driving in the
___________ direction.

It will turn right onto Park Road, driving in the south direction.

1. Step 1: After S1 the bus is still driving east along Hospital Road.
2. Step 2: Hospital Road ends where it meets the long road running up and down on the east
side. That road is Park Road — it is named after the Children's Park beside it.
3. Step 3: The bus turns right. It was facing east; a right turn now makes it face south.
4. Step 4: It drives south along Park Road, past Prem's house and Raju's house, and reaches S2
beside the Shopping Centre.

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Facing north, turn right → facing east

Facing east, turn right → facing south

Facing south, turn right → facing west
Facing west, turn right → facing north

Check it yourself: Look at the red arrows printed on the map itself. On Hospital
Road they point to the right (east). On Park Road they point downwards (south). The
map agrees with our answer.

Q3 (a) Whose houses are situated to the east of Jaideep's house?

Prem's house and Raju's house.

1. Find Jaideep's house. It is in the middle strip of the map, in the same block as the pond,
close to Park Road.
2. Put your finger on it and slide straight to the right. Right is east.
3. You cross Park Road and come to the eastern strip of the map.
4. The houses there are Prem's and Raju's. Prem's house is almost exactly east of Jaideep's;
Raju's house is a little to the south-east.

Why not the Children's Park or the Shopping Centre: The Children's Park is to the
north-east — you would have to go up as well as right. The Shopping Centre is to the
south. Only Prem's and Raju's houses lie on the eastern side at about the same level.

Tip: Lay a ruler across the map through Jaideep's house, keeping it flat and level with
the bottom edge. Everything the ruler touches on the right is east of the house.

Q4 (b) Mark the route from Ravi's house to the children's park.

Here is a route Ravi can really walk. Draw it on your map with a pencil.

1. Step 1: Come out of Ravi's house on to the road just east of it — the same road the bus uses.

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2. Find the two stops. S1 is in the north, in front of the hospital. S2 is in the south, beside the
Shopping Centre.
3. Lali is already in the north, so S1 is the nearer one. To reach S2 she would have to walk
down the whole length of the map and then across.

Lali → S1: east to the road, then east along Hospital Road. Short.

Lali → S2: east to the road, then all the way south, then east. Much longer.

Tip: When two places are being compared, do not guess from the picture. Trace both
walks with your finger along the roads and see which finger stops sooner.

Q6 (d) Golu is running late. Trace the route to help him reach the nearest bus stop.

Golu's nearest stop is Stop 1 (S1) — and it is only a few steps away. His house is in the block
just south of Hospital Road, and S1 is on that very road.

1. Step 1: Golu comes out of his front door and walks north, up to Hospital Road.
2. Step 2: He turns on to Hospital Road and looks across it. The HOSPITAL is straight ahead.
3. Step 3: The S1 stop sign is right there in front of the hospital, almost directly north of his
house.
4. Step 4: He crosses the road carefully and waits at S1. He will be in time.

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The shortest route in the whole chapter: one short walk to the north.

Why S1 and not S2: S2 is beside the Shopping Centre, far away in the south of the
map. From Golu's house he would have to walk east to Park Road and then all the
way down. S1 is on the road at the end of his own block, so it is much nearer.

Q7 (e) In which direction would Prem have to move to reach Stop 2?

Prem has to move towards the south.

1. Step 1: Prem comes out of his house on the east side of the map and reaches Park Road,
which runs along the west edge of his block.
2. Step 2: He turns to face south — down the page.
3. Step 3: He walks south along Park Road. Raju's house goes past on his left. He crosses
Market Road.
4. Step 4: S2 is on his right, at the end of the Shopping Centre. He has arrived.

Prem's house → Park Road (a few steps west)

Then south along Park Road

S2 is on the right (west) side of the road

Tip: The one-word answer the blank wants is south, because that is the direction he
travels for almost the whole way. The short step west at the start is only to get on to
the road.

Delhi Metro Train Stations — Page 175

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Reading the key, the coloured lines and marking two stations

METRO MAP

Q1 Read the key to the symbols and identify them on the map.

Rajiv Chowk

Supreme Court

Central Secretariat Yamuna Bank

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3. Blue Line 7. Pink Line
4. Airport Express Line 8. Magenta Line

The keys from the Delhi Metro map on page 175, with a simple drawing of the part of
the map used in these questions.

The key (the box marked KEYS at the bottom of the map) has ten entries. Eight are metro lines,
and two tell you what the little circles mean.

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NO. SYMBOL IN THE KEY WHAT IT MEANS ON THE MAP

1 a red line Red Line

2 a yellow line Yellow Line

3 a dark blue line Blue Line

4 an orange line Airport Express Line

5 a green line Green Line

6 a purple line Violet Line

7 a pale pink line Pink Line

8 a bright pink line Magenta Line

9 a small empty circle a metro station

10 a capsule with two coloured dots inside an interchange station, where two lines meet

Now find each one on the map:

The orange line runs from Dwarka Sec 21 through the Airport and Delhi Aerocity to New
Delhi Station — that is why it is called the Airport Express Line.
Hauz Khas is drawn as a capsule with a yellow dot and a magenta dot inside. That tells you
the Yellow Line and the Magenta Line both stop there.
Rajiv Chowk is a capsule with a yellow dot and a blue dot — the Yellow Line and the Blue
Line meet there.

Note: In the Hindi book the fourth line is called ऑरेंज लाइन (Orange Line) instead of
Airport Express Line. It is the same line and the same colour.

Q2 What do the different coloured lines represent?

Each colour is one metro route — one line along which the trains of that colour run, from one
end of the city to the other.

1. Every train on a line goes only along that line. A Yellow Line train never turns off on to the
Blue Line.
2. The circles drawn on a line are the stations where that train stops.

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Tip: The zoo the children are going to — the National Zoological Park — is close to
the Supreme Court station. That is why the teacher chose it.

Metro Map — Questions (a)–(d) — Page 176

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Routes from Qutb Minar to Supreme Court

METRO MAP

Q1 (a) Look at the metro map and trace different routes from the Qutb Minar metro
station to the Supreme Court metro station.

Rajiv Chowk

Supreme Court

Central Secretariat Yamuna Bank

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Hauz Khas

Kalkaji Mandir

Chhatarpur Saket
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3. Blue Line 7. Pink Line
4. Airport Express Line 8. Magenta Line

The keys from the Delhi Metro map on page 175, with a simple drawing of the part of
the map used in these questions.

There is more than one way. Here are three that really work on the map. Trace each with a
different coloured pencil.
Route 1 — Yellow Line, then Blue Line (the simple one)

1. Board the Yellow Line at Qutb Minar and travel north.
2. Stay on it through Saket, Malviya Nagar, Hauz Khas, Green Park, AIIMS, INA, Jor Bagh, Lok
Kalyan Marg, Udyog Bhawan, Central Secretariat and Patel Chowk.

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3. Get down at Rajiv Chowk. This is an interchange — the capsule there has a yellow dot and a
blue dot.
4. Take the Blue Line going east. Three stations later you are at Supreme Court.

Route 2 — Lali's way: Yellow, Magenta, then Blue

1. Yellow Line from Qutb Minar to Hauz Khas (3 stations).
2. Change to the Magenta Line and ride east all the way to Botanical Garden.
3. Change to the Blue Line and come back west through Mayur Vihar and Yamuna Bank to
Supreme Court.

Route 3 — Yellow, Pink, then Blue

1. Yellow Line from Qutb Minar to INA.
2. Change to the Pink Line and travel east to Mayur Vihar.
3. Change to the Blue Line and travel west to Supreme Court.

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Same start, same finish, very different journeys.

Tip: A route on a metro map is only real if you can trace it without lifting your pencil,
and you may only jump from one colour to another at an interchange capsule.

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Q2 (b) Lali says, “We can take the Yellow Line and change the metro at Hauz Khas to
take the Magenta Line.” If the children follow Lali’s suggestion, at which station(s)
do they need to change the metro line again to reach the Supreme Court metro
station?

They must change once more, at Botanical Garden — from the Magenta Line to the Blue Line.

1. Step 1: Yellow Line from Qutb Minar to Hauz Khas, as Lali said.
2. Step 2: Change to the Magenta Line and ride east, through Kalkaji Mandir, all the way to the
end of the map.
3. Step 3: The Magenta Line finishes at Botanical Garden. Look at that station on the map: its
capsule has a magenta dot and a blue dot. So the Blue Line is there too.
4. Step 4: Change to the Blue Line and travel back west through Mayur Vihar, Yamuna Bank
and Indraprastha to Supreme Court.

Qutb Minar —Yellow→ Hauz Khas

Hauz Khas —Magenta→ Botanical Garden

Botanical Garden —Blue→ Supreme Court

There is a second way to finish Lali's route: get down at Kalkaji Mandir (Magenta
+ Violet), take the Violet Line to Central Secretariat, the Yellow Line to Rajiv Chowk,
and the Blue Line to Supreme Court. That means three more changes instead of one
— so Botanical Garden is the better answer.

Why Lali's plan is not the best: The Magenta Line curves right round the south and
east of the city. It carries the children far past the Supreme Court and they have to
come back. Fewer changes usually means a shorter journey, but not always — you
must also look at how far the line goes.

Q3 (c) Which route has the least number of stations between Qutb Minar and Supreme
Court?

Route 1 has the least — the Yellow Line to Rajiv Chowk, then the Blue Line to Supreme
Court. It is 15 stations in all, with only one change.
Count them on the map, circle by circle.

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Qutb Minar → (Yellow Line, 12 stations) → Rajiv Chowk

Rajiv Chowk → (Blue Line, 3 stations) → Supreme Court

Total = 15 stations, 1 change

Sample answer for the class discussion: "We should take the Yellow Line up to
Rajiv Chowk and then the Blue Line to Supreme Court. It has the fewest stations and
only one change, so we will reach the zoo soonest and nobody will get lost while
changing trains."

Let Us Do — Page 176

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Make a map of your school, with a key, and hide some objects on it

LET US DO

Q1 Make a map showing the different places in your school. Make a key for the
symbols used in the map. Hide some objects in these places.

Gate Wall

Road
Fence

Building
Seat/Bench

Tank Path

Garden
Hidden Objects

Tree

The sample school map on page 176 with its key. A red ring shows a place where
something is hidden.

Work through it in six steps. The sample map printed in your book shows what a finished one
looks like.

1. Walk round your school once with a notebook and list the places — gate, office,
classrooms, library, playground, garden, water tank, toilets, trees, benches.
2. Draw the boundary wall first, as a big rectangle, as though you were looking down from
the sky.
3. Put the gate on the correct side, then fill in the buildings and open spaces in their right
places inside the wall.
4. Invent a symbol for each kind of thing — a small picture that is quick to draw and easy to
repeat. Use the same symbol every single time.
5. Draw the key in a box at the side, with each symbol and its name beside it. The book's
sample key has: Gate, Road, Building, Tank, Hidden objects, Wall, Fence, Seat/Bench, Path,
Garden and Tree.
6. Add a direction arrow with N, E, S and W. Then go and really hide a few small things — a
marble, a chalk, a leaf — in the places you have drawn.

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A school map with its key. Every symbol on the map appears in the key, and nothing else.

Why a key is necessary: A map has no room for long words. A symbol saves space
— but only if the reader knows what it stands for. The key is the promise you make to
your reader: "whenever you see this little picture, it means this."

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Q2 Mark the positions where things are hidden with red dots or flags. Now, challenge
your friends to find the hidden things by reading the map.

Gate Wall

Road
Fence

Building
Seat/Bench

Tank Path

Garden
Hidden Objects

Tree

The sample school map on page 176 with its key. A red ring shows a place where
something is hidden.

Mark each hiding place with a small red circle or a red flag, exactly where the object really is,
and add "hidden object = red circle" to your key.

1. Hide the objects first, then mark the map. If you mark first, you may forget where you
actually put them.
2. Put each red mark on the correct symbol — on the tank, on the bench, at the corner of the
garden. Not near it, on it.
3. Give the map to a friend with no other clue. No pointing and no telling.
4. Watch how they read it. A good map lets them find every object; a poor one sends them to
the wrong place. Their mistakes tell you what to fix.

Sample answer: "I hid five things: a marble behind the water tank, a chalk under the
third bench, a bottle cap at the foot of the neem tree, a rubber near the gate and a
button in the garden. I marked all five with red circles. My friend found four. She
missed the one at the neem tree because I had drawn two trees the same and had
not marked which one — so I added the direction arrow and she found it at once."

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The ant crawls along the dotted lines of a 1 cm grid

ANTHILL IN THE ZOO

Q1 To collect food, the ant can only crawl along the dotted lines on the grid. Fill in the
blanks below. (a) To get to the laddoos, the ant has to crawl 2 cm towards the east.

N 1 cm

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The grid on page 177. The ant is in the middle. The red dotted lines are the paths it can
crawl. One square is 1 cm.

This one is done for you in the book, and the picture agrees: 2 cm towards the east.
Here is how the answer was read off the grid — use the same method for the rest.

1. Find the ant. It sits on a crossing of two grid lines. That crossing is the starting point.
2. Find the laddoos. They are on the same horizontal line, to the right of the ant.
3. Count the squares between them. There are 2 squares.

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4. Each square is 1 cm across — the book prints "1 cm" beside a square in the top corner. So 2
squares = 2 cm.
5. Right on the page means east, so the answer is 2 cm towards the east.

sugar

ant laddoos

apple

bread

Each small square is 1 cm across and 1 cm up.
The four food routes drawn on the grid, exactly as in the book.

Remember the two questions: for every blank, ask how many squares? and which
way? Nothing else is needed.

Q2 (b) To get to the sugar, the ant has to crawl ____cm in the _______direction.

3 cm in the north direction.

1. Start at the ant.
2. Look at the sugar. It is straight above the ant, on the same vertical line — the arrow on the
grid points upwards.

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3. Count the squares going up: 1, 2, 3.
4. 3 squares = 3 cm, and up means north.

Number of squares upward = 3
1 square = 1 cm

3 × 1 cm = 3 cm towards the north

Why we count squares and not the picture: The sugar heap is drawn big, but the
ant does not walk to the middle of the drawing — it walks to the red dot where the
two grid lines cross. Always count to the dot.

Q3 (c) To get to the bread, the ant has to crawl ____cm in the _______ direction; then
____cm in the _______direction.

3 cm in the west direction; then 2 cm in the south direction.

1. Step 1: From the ant, follow the arrow that points to the left. Count the squares: 1, 2, 3. That
is 3 cm towards the west.
2. Step 2: The route now turns downwards. Count again: 1, 2. That is 2 cm towards the south.
3. Step 3: The red dot at the end is the bread. The ant has arrived.

3 squares left = 3 cm west

2 squares down = 2 cm south
Total distance crawled = 3 + 2 = 5 cm

Check it yourself: Start at the bread and walk back — 2 cm north, then 3 cm east —
and you land exactly on the ant. A route that works both ways is a correct route.

Q4 (d) To get to the apple, the ant needs to crawl ______cm towards _________, and then
____cm towards _________, and finally ___cm towards______.

5 cm towards the south, then 3 cm towards the east, and finally 2 cm towards the north.

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Follow the arrows drawn on the grid, one leg at a time.

1. Leg 1: From the ant the arrow points down. Count the squares: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. That is 5 cm
south, right down to the bottom line of the route.
2. Leg 2: The route turns right. Count: 1, 2, 3. That is 3 cm east.
3. Leg 3: The route turns upwards. Count: 1, 2. That is 2 cm north, and there is the apple.

5 cm south + 3 cm east + 2 cm north

Total crawl = 5 + 3 + 2 = 10 cm

Where the apple really is: The ant went 5 cm down and came 2 cm back up, so in
the end it is 5 − 2 = 3 cm below the start. It also went 3 cm to the right. So the apple
sits 3 cm east and 3 cm south of the ant — even though the ant crawled 10 cm to
get there.

Q5 Identify other routes to reach the point where apple is located. Which one is the
shortest?

The shortest route is 6 cm long: 3 cm east, then 3 cm south (or 3 cm south and then 3 cm
east — both measure 6 cm).
Some other routes that also reach the apple:

ROUTE LEGS TOTAL LENGTH

The one drawn in the book 5 cm S + 3 cm E + 2 cm N 10 cm

Straight across, then down 3 cm E + 3 cm S 6 cm

Straight down, then across 3 cm S + 3 cm E 6 cm

Steps, like a staircase 1E+1S+1E+1S+1E+1S 6 cm

A wandering route 2 cm N + 3 cm E + 5 cm S 10 cm

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Naming a place on a grid with two numbers, (column, row)

LOCATING THE ANIMALS

Q1 To reach the tortoise, move ________ steps towards east and reach the _________
column. Then move _______ step(s) _______ and reach the first _______.

Move 4 steps towards east and reach the fourth column. Then move 1 step north and reach the
first row.
Follow the rule printed in the yellow strip on the page: first move horizontally from 0 and then
vertically.

1. Step 1: Start at 0, the bottom-left corner of the grid.
2. Step 2: Move east (to the right) along the bottom. Count the columns as you pass them: 1, 2,
3, 4. Stop at the fourth column.
3. Step 3: Now move north (up) by 1 step. You are on the first row.
4. Step 4: The tortoise is sitting exactly where the fourth column crosses the first row. We write
that place as (4,1).

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The two numbers in (4,1) are the two moves: 4 across, then 1 up.

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Why the order matters: Everybody must move the same way round, or the same
pair of numbers would mean different places to different people. The book fixes the
order: across first, then up. So in (4,1) the 4 is the column and the 1 is the row —
always.

Q2 The location of the tortoise is (4,1). What is at (1,4)?

At (1,4) there is the snake — the cobra with its hood raised, on the left-hand side of the map.

1. Step 1: Start at 0 and move 1 step east. You are at the first column.
2. Step 2: Move 4 steps north. You are on the fourth row.
3. Step 3: The animal sitting there is the snake.

(4,1) → 4 across, 1 up → tortoise

(1,4) → 1 across, 4 up → snake

Why they are different places: The numbers are the same but their jobs are
swapped. In (4,1) the four belongs to the columns; in (1,4) the four belongs to the
rows. Swapping them takes you to a completely different square of the zoo. This is
the most important idea on the page — write the column first, every time.

Try this: Find (1,1) and (3,3) on the map. Those two are the only pairs on this page
where swapping the numbers changes nothing, because both numbers are the
same.

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Q3 1. Locate the animal at the following positions on the map. (a) (11,11) (b) (2,6) (c)
(6,4) (d) (3,10) (e) (11,3) (f) (10,9)

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from 0 at the bottom left corner.

Read each pair as "go across this many, then go up this many".

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PART POSITION MOVE THEN MOVE UP ANIMAL
ACROSS (NORTH)
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(a) (11,11) 11 columns 11 rows Toucan — the black bird with the big
orange beak, in the tree at the top right

(b) (2,6) 2 columns 6 rows Leopard — the spotted big cat on the
left

(c) (6,4) 6 columns 4 rows Elephant

(d) (3,10) 3 columns 10 rows Flamingo — the tall pink bird

(e) (11,3) 11 columns 3 rows Monkey — sitting in the big tree on the
right

(f) (10,9) 10 columns 9 rows Zebra

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Q4 2. Write the position of the following animals on the map. (a) Lion (b) Elephant (c)
Tortoise (d) Deer (e) Panda (f) Crocodile

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The zoo map on page 178. Each column and each row has a number. Counting starts
from 0 at the bottom left corner.

This is the last question turned round. Now you start at the animal and read off its two
numbers.

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PART ANIMAL COLUMN IT STANDS ON ROW IT STANDS ON POSITION

(a) Lion 3 3 (3,3)

(b) Elephant 6 4 (6,4)

(c) Tortoise 4 1 (4,1)

(d) Deer 10 6 (10,6)

(e) Panda 1 1 (1,1)

(f) Crocodile 10 1 (10,1)

Do it in three steps for each animal:

1. Put your finger on the animal and slide straight down to the numbers along the bottom.
Write that number first.
2. Go back to the animal and slide straight left to the numbers up the side. Write that number
second.
3. Put the two numbers in a bracket with a comma between them: (column, row).

Check it yourself: The panda was given in the book as (1,1) and the tortoise as (4,1)
— and that is exactly what our method gives. Because the method got the two
known answers right, we can trust it for the other four.

A useful thing to notice: The panda (1,1), the tortoise (4,1) and the crocodile (10,1)
all have 1 as their second number. They are all on row 1, the bottom row of the zoo
— and indeed all three are drawn along the bottom of the map, near the ZOO board.

Q5 3. Place dots of different colours on the following positions. (a) (8,3) (Red) (b) (2,9)
(Green) (c) (7,3) (Blue) (d) (3,8) (Orange) (e) (8,6) (Black) (f) (6,6) (Pink)

None of these six squares has an animal on it — they are open ground. Use the same two
moves each time: across first, then up.

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PART POSITION COLOUR OF THE WHERE TO PUT IT
DOT

(a) (8,3) Red 8 across, 3 up — on the grass east of the elephant, below the
monkey's tree

(b) (2,9) Green 2 across, 9 up — near the top left, below the flamingo

(c) (7,3) Blue 7 across, 3 up — just one square west of the red dot

(d) (3,8) Orange 3 across, 8 up — on the grass west of the hippo's pond

(e) (8,6) Black 8 across, 6 up — one square south of the lioness

(f) (6,6) Pink 6 across, 6 up — near the middle of the map, south of the
pond

The six coloured dots in their correct squares.

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Mark them lightly in pencil first, check the two numbers, then colour them in.

Look at (8,3) and (7,3): both have 3 as the second number, so both sit on row 3 —
side by side, one square apart. Two positions that share a number always share a
line: the same row if the second numbers match, the same column if the first
numbers match.

Check it yourself: (6,6) has both numbers the same, so it must lie on the slanting
line that runs from (1,1) through (2,2), (3,3), (4,4) … Put a ruler from the panda's
corner and see whether your pink dot sits on it.

Chapter at a glance
Face the rising Sun and you have found east. The Sun comes up in the east every
morning. Stand facing it. Now your left hand points north, your right hand points south,
and your back is towards west. These four are called the cardinal directions — the four main
directions. Say them in order as you turn: N, E, S, W.
Every map has a direction arrow. It is a small sign in a corner with N, E, S and W on it (in
the Hindi book: उ., पू., द., प.). On almost every map north is at the top, so east is to the right,
west is to the left and south is at the bottom. Find that arrow first, before you read anything
else on the map.
Reading a picture map. In the bird-watching camp map, you find a tent by asking which
side of what. The tent west of the road is on the left of the road. The tent south of the lake is
below the lake. One clue at a time, and each tent gets its colour.
Directions inside a room. A room can be mapped too. Stand in the middle, put a direction
arrow on your drawing, and then say where each thing is — the window is north, the bed is
east, and so on. The direction of a thing is always given in relation to the person standing in
the middle.
A street map shows roads, buildings and a route. Roads have names, like Hospital Road
and Park Road. A dotted line shows the bus route. Little markers S1 and S2 show the bus
stops. To describe a journey you say two things at every corner: which road and which
direction — "turn right onto Park Road and drive south".
Left and right change; north and south do not. If the bus is driving north and turns right,
it is now driving east. If it is driving east and turns right, it is now driving south. Draw the
compass on your page and turn it with the bus — that is the safe way to fill these blanks.
A metro map is a map of lines, not of streets. Each colour is one metro route — Yellow
Line, Blue Line, Magenta Line. A plain circle is a station. A circle with two colours in it is an
interchange — the station where you can get off one line and get on another. A journey
with fewer changes and fewer stations is usually the better journey.

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Quick revision

WORD WHAT IT MEANS WHERE IT APPEARS EXAMPLE

Direction The way you face or move Finding Directions, page 171 East, west, north, south

Cardinal The four main directions Page 171 North, East, South, West
directions

East The direction of the rising Sun Page 171 Manu faces east

West Opposite to east; the Sun sets Page 171 Manu's back is towards
there west

North On your left when you face east Page 171 Manu's left hand points
north

South On your right when you face east Page 171 Manu's right hand
points south

Map A drawing of a place seen from Bird Watching!, page 172 The camp map with
above tents and a lake

Direction arrow The N-E-S-W sign drawn on a Every map in the chapter N at the top, E to the
map right

Street map A map showing roads and Bus Route, page 174 Hospital Road, Park
buildings Road, Market Road

Route The path taken from one place to Bus Route, page 174 The dotted red line of
another the bus

Key (of a map) The little box that tells you what Metro Map, page 175; A red circle = a hidden
each symbol or colour means sample school map, page object
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Symbol A small picture that stands for a Sample map, page 176 A wavy line stands for a
real thing garden

Interchange A station where two metro lines Metro Map, page 175 Rajiv Chowk, Hauz Khas,
station meet, so you can change trains Botanical Garden

Grid A set of equal squares made by Anthill in the Zoo, page 177 Each square is 1 cm by 1
lines going across and up cm

Column A line of the grid going up and Locating the Animals, page Column 4
down (vertical) 178

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WORD WHAT IT MEANS WHERE IT APPEARS EXAMPLE

Row A line of the grid going across Locating the Animals, page Row 1
(horizontal) 178

Position (a,b) Two numbers naming a place: Page 178 Tortoise = (4,1)
first the column, then the row

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