Trace a circle with the help of some of these in your notebook or on the ground. Which thing makes the smallest circle? Which thing makes the biggest circle?

Trace a circle with the help of some of these in your notebook or on the ground.

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Chapter 8: Carts and Wheels - Exercises [Page 82]

Chapter 8 Carts and Wheels
Exercises | Q 2.5 | Page 82

You must have seen many such round things around you. List some more in your notebook.

A bangle can be used to trace a circle. What are the other things around you that you can use to trace a circle?

What if a rectangle was made? Discuss.

Which group made the smallest circle?

How long was their rope?

Does a longer rope make a bigger circle? Why is it so?

Have you seen a compass before? How will you use this to make a circle?

- Open your compass.

- Press the tip of the compass on the paper. Hold the compass from the top.

- Without moving the tip, try to move the pencil around.

- Do you get a circle?

Now you can make your own designs like Daljeet had made. How many did you make?

Guess how this design has made. Use a compass to make similar one in the box.

Did any one of you ever get a shape like Naina’s?