LIST OF ACTIVITIES(SA-II)

Chapter 5 Understanding Elementary Shapes

Activity 1 : Give 5 examples of one dimension, two dimension and three dimension
objects, and collect their pictures.
Activity 2 : Make Nets on cube, cuboid, cylinder, cone and pyramid.
Activity 3 : Identify (write) the faces, edges and vertices of cube, cuboid, cylinder,
sphere, cone, triangle, pyramid and square prism.

Chapter 7 Fraction

Activity 1 : Calculate and write the following:
a) What fraction of day you spend on playing?
b) What fraction of day you spend on studying?
c) What fraction of day you spend on watching TV?
d) What fraction of day you spend on sleeping?
Activity 2 : Write fraction of your marks in each subject, and arrange them in
ascending order.

Chapter 8 Decimals

Activity 1 : Weigh any five items and then express their weight in kilograms.
Add all weights.
Activity 2 : Prepare a model / chart to explain the addition of 0.6 and 0.05

Chapter 10 - Mensuration

Activity 1 : Plot your palm on the graph paper. Find the area of your palm.
Activity 2 : Measure the length and breadth of black board of your class, and find
its
perimeter and area.
Activity 3 : Measure the length and breadth of the base of your geometry box in
mm
and find its perimeter and area.

Chapter 11 - Algebra

Activity 1 : Write the present age your brother / sister, mother, father, grand-
father
and grand-mother. Assuming your age as X, express the relation of
your age with each of your family member.
Activity 2 : Make group of at least five students of your class. Let each member of
the group write the age of other members of the group, and the age of
their father and mother. Then express the relation of the age of
member
with that of his father and mother in algebraic form.

Chapter 12 Ratios and Proportions

Activity 1 : Out of total students in a class, find how many students like cricket,
football, badminton, and tennis, and find their ratio between cricket,
and tennis, football and badminton, and football and tennis.
Activity 2 : Collect the information about the number of ladies teachers and gents
teachers teaching classes VI to VII, and prepare a chart that depicts
this
information in the form of ratios as under:
a) Section- wise b) Class-wise, and c) Total strength at school

Activity 3 : Measure the length and width of the black board, window and gate of
your class and find the ratio of length and breadth of each of these.

Chapter 13 - Symmetry

Activity 1 : Collect leaves and petals of the flowers of five flowering plants. Paste
symmetrical and non-symmetrical leaves and petals of flowers on
different sheets.
Activity 2 : Collect all 26 capital English alphabets made of plastic and paste them
on separate sheets of paper having
a) Horizontal lines of symmetry
b) Vertical lines of symmetry
c) Both horizontal and vertical lines of symmetry, and
d) Having no lines of symmetry.

Chapter 14 - Practical Geometry
Activity 1 : Give five examples of perpendicular line, and parallel line.
Activity 2 : Collect five items which form different angles, such as acute, obtuse
etc.

ACTIVITIES FOR CLASS VII
RATIONAL NUMBER
1. To compare two given rational numbers the class may be divided into groups and let
each group compare and discuss the method of comparison by
(i)Representing the rational no. on number line.
(ii) Converting the rational no. into equivalent having same positive denominators.
(iii) Subtracting one rational no. from other.
2. To demonstrate the associative property on the number line by an activity.
EXPONENTS AND POWERS
1. Prepare a chart of laws exponents with examples.
2. By using a long paper strip find the values of 2
0
, 2
1
,2
2
,2
3
,2
4
.
ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSIONS
1. Prepare a chart representing different types of polynomials with at least 5 examples of
each type of polynomials.
2. Ask ages of your friends, relatives and write their ages in terms of your age in the form of
algebraic expression ex. Your age is x year, yours friends age may be x+2 years and fathers
age may be 4x+1 years.
3. To familiarize with multiplication of binomial and monomials.
COMPARING QUANTITIES (RATIO AND PROPORTION)
1. Find out the no. of girls and boys in different classes from VI to viii and express them in
the form of ratios class wise on a chart paper as
(a) Boys to girls
(b) Boys to total students
(c) Girls to total students
2. Divide the class into four groups. Let each group note down the no. of cars &then no. of
scooters which cross between 8am to 9am at a particular crossing on the same day. One
group note the no. from north to south the other from south to north ,the third from east to
west &fourth from west to east. Represent this information in the form of different ratios on
the chart paper.
COMPARING QUANTITIES (PERCENTAGE)
1. Conduct a survey of 10 families of your neighborhood&find out income and expenditure
of each family &then express their saving as percentage.
2. Find out what percent of amount was spent on education by government of India during
last 5 years
TRIANGLES
1. Prepare a model to prove angle sum property of triangle.
2. By using matchsticks, prepare a model /chart to verify sum of any two sides of triangle is
greater than the third side.
3. Prepare a chart or a model to verify Pythagoras theorem.
4. Write about mathematician PYTHAGORAS
CONGRUENCE OF TRIANGLES
1. List 5 figure or things from your surroundings which are congruent.
2. By paper folding/cutting method verify that
(a)A diagonal of parallelogram bisects the parallelogram in into two congruent triangles.
(b) Diagonals of parallelogram bisect each other.
3. using squared paper verify that two congruent squares are equal in area and vice versa.
4. using squared paper verify that two congruent triangles are equal in area but converse is
not true.
SYMMETRY
1. Prepare a model to verify that the order of rotational symmetry of rectangle is 2.
2. Prepare a model to verify that the order of rotational symmetry of regular polygon is
same as no. of sides.
VISULASING SOLID SHAPES
1. Cut thee different nets for cube with flaps from card board and then glue them to
complete the cube.
2. Take three cubes of side 3cm each and paste each other side by side and find
dimensions of resulting figure and name the resulting figure.
MENSURATIONS
1. Prepare a cardboard /wooden model to find the area of parallelogram.
2. Measure the racing track of school playground which is semicircular at both ends and
find the distance covered in one round.
3. Draw a circle using bangle find the circumference by means of thread.
4. By paper cutting and pasting verify the formula of a triangle.
List of activities for class 8 (SA-2)
Topic - Comparing quantities
Make two groups of boys and girls and find the height of smallest boy and girl and compare
tallest boy and girl.
Topic Algebraic expression
Activity prepare charts or models to verify the following identity
(x + a) (x + b) = x
2
+ (a + b)x + a b
(x + y)
2
= x
2
+ 2xy + y
2

(x y)
2
= x
2
2xy + y
2
(x
2
y
2
) = (x + y) (x y)
Topic Visualising solid shapes
Activity 1. Make nets for
(a) Cube
(b) Cuboid
(c) Open cylinder
2. Make a die from a chart paper and write number 1-6 on the six faces to play ludo
or snake and ladder.

Topic Mensuration
Activity 1. Measure the volume of
(a) Chalk box
(b) Match box
(c) Cube
. 2. Measure the volume of milk container.

Topic Exponent and power

Activity 1. Measure the length of your pencil in centimeter. Convert the length into
kilometer and express in standard form.
2. Charge of electron and express in standard form.

Topic Direct and inverse variation

Activity By keeping perimeter of a rectangular field fixed, find out whether length
and breadth vary directly or inverse or no proportion exists.

Topic Factorization

Activity factorization of polynomials of type ax
2
+ bx + c, by splitting middle term.

Topic I ntroduction of graph

Activity Describe the position of the (class) seats of your 10 classmates using
vertical and horizontal measurements.

Topic Playing with numbers

Activity Construct a 4x4 magic square using numbers from 1-6 , so that sum of
each row, each column and diagonal in same.
LIST OF ACTIVITIES FOR II TERM
Class- I X Mathematics
Activity 1: To verify that the Diagonals of a parallelogram bisect each other.
Activity 2: The straight line joining Mid-points of any two sides of a triangle is parallel to
the third side and is equal to half of it.

Activity 3: To obtain the formula for the Area of a triangle.

Activity 4: To obtain the area of the Area of the parallelogram.

Activity 5: To obtain the Area of the trapezium.

Activity 6: To verify that:

(a) Area of the Parallelograms on the same base and between same Parallels are Equal.

(b) Area of Trangles on the Same Base and between Same Parallels are Equal.

Activity 7: To verify that the Ratio of the Areas of a Parallelogram and a Triangle on the
Same Base and between the Same Parallels is 2:1.

Activity 8: To verify that an angle subtended by an Arc at the centre of circle is Double the
Angles it subtends at any point in the Remaining Part if the Circle, Using Method of Paper
Cutting and Paper Folding.

Activity 9: To verify that the Angles in the Same Segment of a Circle are Equal, Using the
Method of Paper Cutting and Paper Folding.

Activity 10: To verify that the Angle in a Semicircle is a Right Angle, Using the Method of
Cutting , Pasting and Paper Folding.

Activity 11: To Form a Cuboid and Find the Formula for its Surface Area Experimentally.

Activity 12: To form a cone from A Sector of a circle and to Find the Formula for its Curved
Surface Area.

Activity 13: To Find Experimentally the Surface Area of a Cylinder.

Activity 14: Verifying Volume Relationship Among Right Circular Cone , a Hemisphere and
Right Circular Cylinder of the Same Height h and Same Radius r.

Activity 15: Verifying Surface Area of Sphere.

List of Activities
Class-X
1. By using the method of completing the square, find geometrically the solution of a
quadratic Equation ax
2
+bx+c=0.
2. To verify the given A.P by paper cutting and pasting on a graph paper.
3. To find experimentally whether a given sequence is an arithmetic sequence or not.
4. To verify the lengths of tangents drawn from an external point to a circle are equal
by paper cutting and folding method.
5. To calculate the height of an object using sextant.
6. To find out distance between two objects by physically demonstrating the position of
two objects.
7. To demonstrate formula for the surface area of a circus tent.
8. To find out the probability of getting two heads, when two coins are tossed
simultaneously.
LIST OF ACTIVITIES FOR CLASS VI (SA-2)
FRACTION
Q1. Collect the information of the no. of boys and girls of class VI & vii. Find their total
expresss
1. Boys as fraction of all students
2. Girls as fraction of all students
3. Boys as fraction of girls
Q2. Complete the MAGIC SQUARE
Fill the boxes in the square with fractions such that the sum of the fractions in each row,
column and diagonal 1
Q3. Draw the following figure and shade 7/16, 11/16, 3/16 in separate figure

DECIMALS
1. Measure
I. Length of teachers table
II. Height of your friend
III. Length of your friend
Express all the lengths in meters
2. Prepare a model / chart to explain addition 0.4 + 0.03
3. MAGIC SQUARE
Totals are same in all directions
Fill in the blank squares cub
3.2 6 2
4.4 1.6
2.4 2.8
4 12
RATIO AND PROPORTION
1. Collect the information of the no. of boys and girls in each section of classes vi to x.
then prepare a chart which depicts this information in form of ratio as mentioned
A. Section wise
B. Class wise
C. For total strength of school
2. Find the ratio of ages of five of four friends with their father and then mother.
ALGEBRA
1. Using match sticks , extend the following patterns and then find algebraic expression
to know the number of match sticks to be used to form n letters or triangles in each
case :

(a)

5/1
2
2/9
7/18
11/
36

(b)

(c)

2. Make 4 groups of your class having almost equal number of students in each group.
Each member of the groups will write the ages of other members of his group and the
ages of their sister or brother. Then express the relation of the age of the member and
the age of his/ her sister or brother in algebraic form.
UNDERSTANDING GEOMETRICAL SHAPES
1. Make paper models of :
(a) Cylinder
(b) Cone
(c) Cuboid
(d) Cube
2. Make net of a tetrahedron from a chart paper.
SYMMETRY
1. Collect all the 26 capital English alphabets made of wood or plastic and paste them
on separate chart papers having

(i) Horizontal line of symmetry
(ii) Vertical line of symmetry
(iii) Both horizontal and vertical lines of symmetry
(iv) Having no line of symmetry
2. On tracing paper draw figures of a
I. Triangle
II. Parallelogram
III. Rectangle
IV. Square
V. Rhombus
By paper folding find out the number of axis of each figure.
MENSURATION
1. Draw any circle. Find the area of this circle using a centimeter graph paper.
2. Measure the length and breadth of cover of your mathematics book and find its area.
ACTI VI TI ES OF CLASS VI I
1. Prepare a chart depicting laws of exponents with examples thereon.

2. By using a long paper strip,find the values of 2
0
,2
1
,2
2
,2
3
,2
4


3. Prepare a chart depicting different types of polynomials with at least 5 examples of each
type of polynomial.
4.Ask ages of your friends/relatives and write their ages in terms of your age in the form of
algebraic Expressions, e.g., if your age in x years,your friends age may be (x+2)years
and dads age may be (4x+1) years.
4. Conduct a Survey of 10 families of your neighbourhood and find out the income and
expenditure of each family and then their saving as percentage.

5. Find out what percent of amount was spent on education by the Government of India
during last 5 years.
7.List five figures or things from your surroundings which are congruent.
8.Using squared paper verify two congruent squares are equal in area and vice-versa.
9. Using squared paper verify two congruent tringles are equal in area but the converse is
not true.
10. Prepare a model to verify that the order of rotational symmetry of a rectangle is two.
11. Prepare a model to verify that the order of rotational symmetry of a regular polygon is
the same as the number of sides.
12.Prepare a card-board /wooden model to find the area of a parallelogram.
13. Measure the racing track of the school playground which is semi-circular at both ends
and find the distance covered in one round.
14. Draw a circle using a bangle and find the circumference by means of thread.
15. By paper cutting and pasting, verify the formula for the area of a triangle.
List of Activities for Class VIII
1. Let each student write randomly the Cost Price and Selling Price of an article and
ask his /her friend to find the gain or loss%. For this they can form a group of 5
students so that each group has five questions to solve.
2. Make a Kite and a Rhombus by paper cutting method.
3. Verify the sum of angles of a quadrilateral is 360 by paper cutting and pasting
method.
4. Make the nets for Cube.
5. Make the nets for Cuboids
6. Make the nets for Open cylinder.
7. Draw a large size trapezium on a cardboard and prepare a model to verify the
formula for the area of a trapezium.
8. Describe the position of seats of the students in the class by using the vertical and
horizontal measurements.
9. To prepare the chart or model to verify the following identities:
i)
2 2 2
2 ( ) a b ab a b
ii)
2 2 2
2 ( ) a b ab a b

10. Take three different size of square and find the ratio of their perimeter and areas.
11. Verify the areas and perimeters (Activity 10) are varying inversely or directly.
12. Take a close hollow box of cardboard open it to from a cuboid net and then verify the
formula for the surface area of a cuboid.
13. Measure the volume of a cylindrical glass (having top and bottom of same size) then
verify with measuring jar.
List of Activities for Class IX (SA-2)
1. Angle sum property of a quadrilateral.
2. To prove that the line joining the mid points of two sides of a triangle is parallel to third
side and half of it.
3. To prove that parallelograms on the same base and same parallels are equal in area.
4. To prove that equal chords of a circle subtend equal angles at the centre.
5. Equal chords are equidistant from the centre.
6. The angle subtended by an arc at the centre is double the angle subtended by it at any
point on the remaining part of the circle.
7. The sum of either pair of opposite angles of a cyclic quadrilateral is 180.
8. To find the surface area of: a. Cube b. Cuboid c. cylinder d. Cone e. Sphere
9. To find the percentage of students in a group of students who write faster with their left
Hand/right Hand.
10. To design a crossword puzzle with mathematical terms.
LIST OF ACTIVITIES FOR CLASS X
1) To find the sum of n terms of an Arithmetic Progression (A.P)
2) To show that the sum of first n natural numbers is n(n+1)/2
3) To verify the result of Basic Proportionality Theorem.
4) To find the ratio of the area of similar triangles.
5) To verify the length of tangents drawn from an external point are equal.
6) To determine the total surface area of a given closed right circular cylinder.
7) To find the volume of a right circular cone.
8) To find the distance between two points.
9) To find the height of a tree by using a clinometer (or sextent)
10) To solve the quadratic equation x
2
+4x-77=0