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Cyclic Events in a Year: Understanding Time | 3rd Maths Term 3 Unit 6

3rd Maths : Term 3 Unit 6 : Time

Time cyclic events in a year

Every day we wake up in the morning and go to bed at night time.

This process keeps on repeating every day.

Every day the sun rises in the morning and sets in the evening .

Events that keep on repeating in the same manner (without much difference) refers a cycle.

Illustration of day and night cycle

Day and night occurs alternatively forms a cycle.

Some events like growth of a plant, construction of a house do not repeat. These events do not form a cycle.

Exercises

1. List the events that form a cycle and that do not form a cycle.

(i) Coming to school

(ii) Rotation of a clock

(iii) Days of a week

(iv) Growth of your pet

(v) Building your house

(vi) Making of idly

Table to classify events

Solution

Events that from a cycle

1. Coming to school

2. Rotation of a clock

3. Days of a week

Events that do not form a cycle

1. Growth of your pet

2. Building your house

3. Making of idly

2. Complete the events of given cycle

(i)

Incomplete life cycle of a butterfly for completion exercise

(ii)

Incomplete cycle of seasons for completion exercise

Activity

Preparing month cycle of a year.

* The Teacher can prepare cards with names of months.

* Divide the class into groups according to the strength.

* Give one set of cards to each group. Each set of cards should be shuffled.

* Ask the group to arrange the cards in the correct cycle of months. The group which completes the task first will be the winner.

Illustration of students participating in the month cycle activity

Mastering Money: Addition and Subtraction for 3rd Grade Maths (Term 3, Unit 5)

3rd Maths : Term 3 Unit 5 : Money

Addition and Subtraction of Money

Adding and subtracting money is as same as adding and subtracting numbers except that we place a dot to differentiate rupees and paise.

1. Add the following.

Examples of adding money

2. Subtract the following.

Examples of subtracting money

Usage of addition and subtraction of money in everyday situation

Kaarkuyil bought a hairclip for ₹. 20.50 and set of bangles for ₹ 30.50 and gave a one hundred rupees note to the shopkeeper the amount to be returned by the shopkeeper to Kaarkuyil.

(i) To find the total cost of the item bought add the cost of items bought.

(ii) Subtract the total cost of items from the amount (₹ 100.00) paid to the shopkeeper. This gives amount to be returned to kaarkuyil

Adding Rupees

Cost hair clip = 20.50

Cost of bangle = 30.50

Total cost = 51.00

Subtracting Rupees

Kaarkuyil paid = 100.00

Total cost = 51.00

Shop keeper has to return =   49.00

Amount return by the shopkeeper to Kaarkuyil = ₹ 49.00

Measurement of Weight | 3rd Maths Term 2 Unit 3 Measurements

Measurements | Term 2 Chapter 3 | 3rd Maths - Measurement of Weight

Chapter: 3rd Maths : Term 2 Unit 3 : Measurements

Measurement of Weight

UNIT−3

MEASUREMENTS

Measurements Unit Header

Measurement of Weight

Recall

Tick the heavier object

Exercise: Tick the heavier object between a pumpkin and a tomato, and a book and a feather

Understanding the Calendar: Leap Years, Months, and Days | 3rd Maths Term 1 Unit 5 Time

3rd Maths : Term 1 Unit 5 : Time

Chapter 5: Calender

A leap year has 366 days. There are 29 days in February in a leap year. It occurs once in every 4 years. The year 2016 was a leap year. 2020 will be the next leap year.

Calender

Let us recall the months of the year.

a. Join the dots in the order of the days and colour the picture.

Join the dots activity for days of the week

b. Join the dots in the order of the months and colour the picture.

Join the dots activity for months of the year

c. Fill in the blanks.

1. A year has 365 days.

2. There are 7 days in a week.

3. Twelve months are one a year.

4. A month has 30 days.

5. The first month of a year is January.

6. The first day of a week is Sunday.

Let us know

1 Week = 7 Days

1 Month = 30 Days

1 Year = 12 Months

1 Year = 365 Days

1 Leap year = 366 Days

Leap year

A leap year has 366 days. There are 29 days in February in a leap year. It occurs once in every 4 years. The year 2016 was a leap year. 2020 will be the next leap year.

Tags : Time | Term 1 Chapter 5 | 3rd Maths , 3rd Maths : Term 1 Unit 5 : Time

Study Material, Lecturing Notes, Assignment, Reference, Wiki description explanation, brief detail

3rd Maths : Term 1 Unit 5 : Time : Calender | Time | Term 1 Chapter 5 | 3rd Maths

3rd Maths Term 1 Chapter 3: Introduction to Patterns

3rd Maths: Term 1 Unit 3

Term 1 Chapter 3 | Patterns

Chapter: 3rd Maths : Term 1 Unit 3 : Patterns

Patterns

A pattern is formed when objects, events and numbers are repeated uniformly in a specific way.

UNIT−3 PATTERNS

Examples of patterns in nature and objects

Observe the pictures given below.

Pattern of children standing in a line

Patterns

A pattern is formed when objects, events and numbers are repeated uniformly in a specific way.

Measuring Capacity: A Guide for 2nd Grade Maths | Term 3, Unit 3

Measuring Capacity

Chapter: 2nd Maths : Term 3 Unit 3 : Measurement

To measure the capacity, a common measuring container is necessary. Here let us take the common measuring container as the tumbler.

Measuring capacity

Recall

Comparison of capacity

Tick (✔) the container that contains more water.

Comparison of water in two containers
Keywords: Capacity

Travel Through

Water! Water!

Kamali and Kannan fetching water

Kamali and kannan fetch 2 pots of drinking water from a tap.

Observe the picture and say who will fetch more water?

Answer: Kamali's 2 pots fetch more water.

Learn

Capacity is the quantity that a vessel can hold within it.

Here tumbler, jug, vessel and pot are some of the containers used to hold water. The capacity of each is different from the other due to the differences in their size.

To measure the capacity, a common measuring container is necessary. Here let us take the common measuring container as the tumbler.

Measuring capacity of different containers with a tumbler

The tumbler can hold 2 tumblers of water.

The jug can hold 5 tumblers of water.

The vessel can hold 10 tumblers of water.

The pot can hold 20 tumblers of water.

Activity

Ordering by capacity

Collect the information about measuring containers from your elders and complete the table.

Activity table for ordering by capacity
Teacher’s Note: Let children discuss on how measuring tools vary across generations (vertically) and vary between family to family (horizontally) .

Practice

Guess the capacity of the given container in terms of measuring vessel. Verify your guess by actually measuring it.

Practice exercise on guessing capacity

Try This

Find the capacity given that 1 jug can hold 3 tumblers of water.

Try this capacity problem with jugs and tumblers

Pot icon Can fill 4 jugs of water.

Pleasure Time

We use different shaped containers in daily life for various purposes. Have you ever thought the reason for it? Think! Complete the following table by putting a tick (✔) mark below the container that is appropriate for the given activities.

Pleasure Time activity table on container usage

2nd Standard Maths Term 1 | Unit 3: Patterns in Colours

2nd Maths: Term 1 Unit 3 - Patterns

Learning Outcomes for Patterns

Patterns in colours

Travel Through

In a Jungle

A colorful jungle scene with animals like a tiger, zebra, giraffe, and peacock.

Teacher’s Note: Teacher can encourage the children to observe the colour patterns of animals in the above picture. Motivate them to tell about the observed patterns.

Learn

Observe and identify the patterns of colours in these objects.

Examples of color patterns in a caterpillar, beads, and a wall.

Practice

Colour and complete the patterns.

Practice sheet for coloring patterns in circles, squares, and flowers.

Try This

Collect the things with colour patterns seen in your surroundings. Discuss about the patterns in them.

Know more

Patterns in colours are seen in dress, rangoli, decoration and painting.

Examples of color patterns in a sari, rangoli, and painting.

Activity

Plait a bunting

Prepare a bunting by pasting colour papers of different colours in a pattern as shown below.

Activity to make a color paper bunting with patterns.

Pleasure Time

Let’s design a dress

Follow your own colour patterns and design the dresses given below.

Coloring activity: Design a frock. Coloring activity: Design a shirt and trousers.

2nd Standard Maths Term 1 | Unit 3: Exploring Patterns in Sound

2nd Maths: Term 1 Unit 3 - Patterns

Learning Outcomes for Patterns

Patterns in sound

Travel Through

All Through the way

Ox cart

The ox cart makes sound kada muda kada… kada muda kada… kada muda kada…

The ox cart makes sound kada muda kada… All through the way.

Horse cart

The horse cart makes sound tuck tuck tick… tuck tuck tick… tuck tuck tick...

The horse cart makes sound tuck tuck tick… All through the way.

Bicycle

The cycle bell makes sound tring clink tring… Tring clink tring... tring clink tring...

The cycle bell makes sound tring clink tring… All through the way.

Motorcycle

The motorcycle makes sound dub dub dub... Dub dub dub... dub dub dub...

The motorcycle makes sound dub dub dub... All through the way.

Train

The train makes sound chik buk chik… chik buk chik… chik buk chik…

The train makes sound chik buk chik… All through the way.

Teacher’s Note: The teacher, along with the children has to sing the rhyme with actions.

Learn

Observe and repeat the patterns in sound

Patterns made with clapping and tapping sounds

We can extend the patterns in sound in many ways like the above.

Practice

Create patterns in sound by clapping, tapping and snapping.

Practice creating sound patterns

Know More

Music is the sound pattern formed by various musical instruments.

Various musical instruments

Activity

Making Tunes with Vessels

Child playing with a plate and spoon

Procedure:

* Divide the students into two groups.

* The first group shall have plates and spoons.

* The second group shall have lunch boxes and spoons.

* If the teacher says 1 and 3, the first group should tap the plates with the spoons one time and the second group should tap the lunch boxes with the spoons 3 times.

* Continue to do it in the similar way till the teacher says the next pair of number.

Try This

My Own tune

Create your own patterns in sound using materials available in your locality such as toys, sticks, etc.,

Examples of patterns with toys and sticks

Pleasure Time

Let us create our own musical instrument by following the given steps.

Steps to make a DIY drum

Step 1: Take a tin, a balloon, a rubber band 2 sticks, and a pair of scissors.

Step 2: Cut the balloon as shown in the figure.

Step 3: Fix the balloon on the tin.

Step 4: Create a sound pattern of your own and share it with your friends.

1st Grade Maths: Term 3 Chapter 3 - Introduction to Money

1st Maths: Money

Term 3 | Unit 3

Stationery Shop

Teacher's Note: Teacher has to ask the students to observe the below picture. Elicit reply for the following questions to introduce the concept of money.

A colorful illustration of a stationery shop with a shopkeeper and a child.

1. What are the items do you see in the stationery shop?

Answer: pencil, pen, eracer, Notebook, Markers, White papers, Books, Staplers, Writing pad, sharpener, skitch, etc

2. What is your favourite item in the shop?

Answer: Skitch

3. In order to buy your favourite item from the shop, what do you need to pay to the shopkeeper?

Answer: 25 Rupees

Keywords: Coin, Currency

Learn: Coins and Currency Notes

The existing coins and currency notes in India.

Images of Indian coins (1, 2, 5, 10 Rupees) and currency notes (10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500 Rupees).

The same valued coins and currency notes make no difference in terms of their values.

Know More

‘₹‘ Symbol is used for representing Rupee, the Indian currency.

Practice

Tick (✓) the correct coin / currency note of the objects.

Practice exercise showing objects and their prices, with the correct currency ticked.

Activity: Trace the coin.

Trace the coins and discuss what do you see in the traced images.

Required materials: Coins, Pencil, Eraser, Paper

Illustration of how to trace a coin on a piece of paper with a pencil.

Know More: Let us Save!

An image encouraging saving, showing a hand putting a coin into a piggy bank.

Learn: ₹ 10 in different ways.

Different combinations of coins and notes that add up to 10 Rupees.

Game: Change, change, exchange

Materials required: Toy coins and currencies. Flash cards with money values.

Procedure:

* Divide the class into two groups.

* Provide flash cards to one group and toy coins and currencies to other group.

* Let the first group show a flash card randomly.

* The second group has to show its equivalent value of money in terms of coins or currencies or combination of both.

* Teacher has to facilitate the children till the enrichment of the concept.

* The groups may be interchanged with the materials and continue the same.

Practice: Matching

Match the objects with its correct money value.

Matching exercise: objects on one side (ice cream, balloon, toy car, pencil) and money values on the other side (₹10, ₹5, ₹1, ₹2).
Click here to see the answers

Correct Matches:

(i) Ice Cream - ₹ 5

(ii) Balloon - ₹ 2

(iii) Toy Car - ₹ 10

(iv) Pencil - ₹ 1

Pleasure time

Tick (✓) the required money to buy the objects.

Exercise showing an object with a price and a selection of coins/notes, with the correct combination ticked.

Organising Information | 1st Maths Term 1 Chapter 4 | Information Processing

1st Maths : Term 1 Unit 4 : Information Processing

Organising information

Learn

Know your relatives.

Family Tree Diagram showing relatives

Activity

Means of transport

Procedure:

1. Divide the class into small groups.

2. Discuss among the group members how each child comes to school?

3. Ask them to complete the table by marking the symbol "Smiley Symbol" in the table.

4. Example: If 3 students come to school by bicycle, then mark the symbol "Smiley Symbol" 3 times against the Bicycle Icon

Table of means of transport with counts

Answer the following based on the data collected.

1. How do you come to school ? Tick (✓) it.

Options for means of transport: Walk, Bicycle, Car, Van, Bus

2. How many friends in your group come to school by walk? 3

3. Total number of members in your group 33

4. Tick (✓) the means of transport which is used most in your group?

Options for most used transport: Walk, Bicycle, Car, Van, Bus with Van ticked

5. Tick (✓) the means of transport which is used least in your group?

Options for least used transport: Walk, Bicycle, Car, Van, Bus with Walk ticked