Secondary School (English Medium) (5 to 8) Class 5 - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for Mathematics

Have you seen frogs? Where? How many different types of frogs have you seen? Are all the frogs of the same length? Here are two interesting examples.

Guess the lengths to draw these things. Ask your friend to draw the same. After you make the drawing use a scale to measure the length. Whose drawing showed a better guess?

Which line is longer? C or D? Measure each line. How good is your guess?

Guess whose tail is the longest. Now measure the tails. How good is your guess?

What is the length of a 100 rupee note? Guess. Now measure it using a scale.

Now guess the length and width of many other things. Measure and find the difference between your measure and your guess.

Difference in size
Do this for yourself and find the difference.

What is Dinesh’s height in metres? _____ m _____ cm.

Parth and Gini bought aam papad (dried mango slice) from a shop. Their pieces looked like these. Both could not make out whose piece was bigger.

• Suggest some ways to find out whose piece is bigger. Discuss

Altogether how many squares can be arranged on it?

So the area of piece A = ________ square cm

In the same way, find the area of piece B.

Who had the bigger piece? How much bigger?

This stamp has an area of 4 square cm. Guess how many such stamps will cover this big rectangle.

Measure the yellow rectangle. It is ________ cm long.

How many stamps can be placed along its length?

How wide is the rectangle? ________ cm

How many stamps are needed to cover the rectangle?

How close was your earlier guess? Discuss.

What is the area of the rectangle? ________ square cm