Primary School (English Medium) कक्षा २ - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for Mathematics

Find out how many cups of water will fill your bottle.

First guess and then try it out.

Now, fill a different bottle with the same cup.

• Which bottle holds less water?

Try it with another bottle.

• Which bottle holds the least water?

Sunaina and Jaspreet brought different vessels from the kitchen. They had a jug, a glass, a mug, a pot and a bowl.

They filled each of these with a cup.

1. Guess which vessel holds the least water.
2. Which vessel holds the most water?

Now, you collect different vessels from your kitchen.

Use the same cup to fill each of them.

Count the number of cups of water each of them can hold.

First guess and then do it.

The vessel you used	Cups of water to fill it
	______
______	______
______	______

Make a group of 3-4 friends. Find out by drawing lines whose step is the longest.

Find the distance between

1. the door and any window of your class.
2. the blackboard and where you are sitting.

Select the one which holds more water.

Rajat wants to find out the length of a few things using his handspan. These are shown in the picture.

• Can he use a handspan to find the length of all these?
• Which things around you are less than your handspan? Name them.
• What would you use to find the length of those things?

Select the one which holds more water.

Make a mud house. See whose mud house is higher. You can use your fingers to find how high your mud house is.

• Who made the highest mud house?
• Whose mud house is the smallest?

Select the one which holds more water.

Select the one which holds more water.

See these two coconut trees. If the bigger tree is 6 metres high, how high is the smaller tree?

Anil is a milkman. He gives the same amount of milk at Rani's house every day. He uses a mug three times to fill Rani's milk pot .

One day Rani's mother gave her a different pot to take milk. Every day Rani's pot would fill to the top. But today Rani found that the pot was not filled completely.

Do you think Anil has given Rani less milk? Help her.

Guess the length or height of the things shown below. Find the length to check your answer.

Name of the thing	My guess	My result
Glass	______fingers	______fingers
Bucket	______handspans	______handspans
Your hand	______matchsticks	______matchsticks
Teacher's table	______math textbook	______math textbook
Your nose	______fingers	______fingers
Water bottle	______fingers	______fingers
Your hair	______handspans	______handspans

Find out:

How much milk does your mother buy every day?

1. Use your fingers to find out the distance between the rat and the milk. ______ fingers
2. How far is the cat from the rat? ______ fingers
3. How far is the cat from the milk? ______ fingers
4. What will the cat reach first - the rat or the milk?
5. Can the rat save itself? How?
6. Tell a story using this picture.
7. How long is the rat's tail? ______ fingers
8. Who has longer whiskers? The rat or the cat?

1. Draw a leaf 2 fingers away from the stone.
2. Draw a banana 5 matchsticks away from the monkey.
3. Draw a kite 7 fingers away from the stone.
4. Draw a cloud 3 matchsticks away from the kite.
5. Draw a bird 4 fingers away from the banana.

Draw yourself anywhere on the page. Find how far you are from the monkey's nose.

Take five different types of big vessels from your kitchen.

Fill all of them one by one with one jug full of water.

What do you see? Why?

Talk to your friends about it.

Sanju and her friends were trying to find out the length of their different body parts. Here is what they found out -

1. Do you agree with what they said?
2. Check how many of your friends have -
   1) a face one handspan long ______
   2) the arm as long as the leg ______
   3) a forehead 4 fingers wide ______
3. You can try and measure other body parts with your fingers and write their length.
   1) Your nose is ______ fingers long.
   2) Your ear is ______ fingers long.

Do you want to know how the water in the pitcher came up?

Take two glasses of the same size.

Fill half of each glass with water.

You have to put tamarind (imli) seeds in the first glass to raise the

water to the top. Guess how many seeds you will need to put in.

Now, do it. Count the number of seeds used. 

Now put the same number of marbles in the second glass.

What happens?

Repeat it with stones.

What happens now? Why?

Talk about it in the class.

Find out how much water (in mugs or buckets) is used in your house for each of the following.

______	______	______	______