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प्रश्न
Activity 1
- Find some things that look 1 metre long.
- Use your metre-rope to find which of these things are more or less than 1 metre.
| Name of the thing | More than 1 metre | Less than 1 metre |
| Length of table | - | - |
| Width of table | - | - |
| Width of door | - | - |
| Length of door | - | - |
| - | - | |
| - | - | |
| - | - |
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उत्तर
Do it yourself.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Imagine-
- Could that person pass through the door of your classroom without bending?
- Will his head touch the roof of your house if he stands straight?
This is the long jump for boys.
Dhanu has the longest jump of 3 metres 40 cm. Gurjeet is second. His jump is 20 cm less than Dhanu's. Gopi comes third. His jump is only 5 cm less than Gurjeet's jump.
- How long are Gurjeet's and Gopi's jumps?
- Try and see how far you can jump.
- How far can you throw a ball?
- Look for a big ball, like a football or volleyball. How far can you kick it?
How many shirts can be hung on this wire?
The matchstick is 4 centimetres long.
The die is 1 centimetre from every side.
The lizard is 13 centimetres long.
- The leaf is ______ centimetres long.
- The wax colour is ______ centimetres long.
- Now, look at a scale that you find in a geometry box. How many centimetres does it have? ______
Think - How will you know the number of centimetres if you measure with a rope, shoe-string, thread etc.?
| My measurement | My friend's measurement | |
| Nose | ______ centimetres | ______ centimetres |
| Around the wrist | ______ centimetres | ______ centimetres |
| Around the head | ______ centimetres | ______ centimetres |
| Ear | ______ centimetres | ______ centimetres |
| Hand (tip of middle finger to wrist) | ______ centimetres | ______ centimetres |
Can you draw a road shorter than these? What is the length of that road?
You must have seen shopkeepers measuring cloth with a metre rod.
- Take a metre rod and a rope.
- Make a knot at one end of the rope.
- Keep the metre rod with the rope.
- Mark 1 metre on the rope and make a knot there.
- Now the length between the two knots is 1 metre. This is your metre-rope.
If you don't get a metre rod use a measuring-tape and mark 100 centimetres on the rope. 100 centimetres are equal to a metre, so you get the metre-rope.
Activity 2
Some Class III children have marked a 1 metre height on the wall of their class.
You can also mark 1 metre on your class wall.
Which of these will be in centimeters and which will be in meters?
Height of a sugarcane
Which of these is nearer to the railway line?
Agra Fort or Taj forest?
