GOVERNMENT OF TAMILNADU

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TERM I
Volume 2

MATHEMATICS

SCIENCE

SOCIAL SCIENCE

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 CONTENTS
UNIT TOPIC PAGE No.

MATHEMATICS (1 - 82)

Number System

1. Natural Numbers & Whole Numbers 2

2. Divisors and Factors 11

3. Fractions and Decimal Numbers 32

Measurements

4. Metric Measures 61

Geometry

5. Point, Line, Line Segment and Plane 66

6. Practical Geometry 74

Answers 78

SCIENCE (83 - 151)

Biology

1. The World of Plants 86

2. Food Habits 100

Chemistry

3. Changes around us 113

Physics

4. Measurement and Motion 124

5. Magnetism 142

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UNIT TOPIC PAGE No.

SOCIAL SCIENCE (152 - 200)

History

1. Prehistoric Period 153

2. Indus Valley Civilization 160

3. Ancient Tamilnadu 168

Geography

4. The Earth and the Solar System 176

Civics

5. Family and Society 187

6. Society and School 190

Economics

7. Economics - An Introduction 195

IV
1
2 NUMBER SYSTEM
Natural Numbers and Whole Numbers

MATHEMATICS 3
 Chapter - 1

4 NUMBER SYSTEM
Natural Numbers and Whole Numbers

MATHEMATICS 5
 Chapter - 1

6 NUMBER SYSTEM
Natural Numbers and Whole Numbers

MATHEMATICS 7
 Chapter - 1

8 NUMBER SYSTEM
Natural Numbers and Whole Numbers

MATHEMATICS 9
 Chapter - 1

10 NUMBER SYSTEM
MATHEMATICS 11
 Chapter - 2

which is correct ?

12 NUMBER SYSTEM
Divisors and Factors

MATHEMATICS 13
 Chapter - 2

6 3
1 6 2 6
6 6

0 0

2 1
3 6 4 6
6 4

0 2

1 1
5 6 6 6
5 6

1 0

14 NUMBER SYSTEM
Divisors and Factors

MATHEMATICS 15
 Chapter - 2

16 NUMBER SYSTEM
Divisors and Factors

MATHEMATICS 17
 Chapter - 2

18 NUMBER SYSTEM
Divisors and Factors

MATHEMATICS 19
 Chapter - 2

20 NUMBER SYSTEM
Divisors and Factors

MATHEMATICS 21
 Chapter - 2

22 NUMBER SYSTEM
Divisors and Factors

MATHEMATICS 23
 Chapter - 2

24 NUMBER SYSTEM
Divisors and Factors

MATHEMATICS 25
 Chapter - 2

26 NUMBER SYSTEM
 Divisors and Factors

Three medical representatives meet a doctor on a particular day. The first

representative, the second representative and the third representative meet the
doctor regularly on every 10th day, 15th day and 20th day respectively. On which
day all the representatives meet the doctor?

To find out the day on which all the three of them meet the doctor together
is the LCM of these numbers.

MATHEMATICS 27
 Chapter - 2

Multiples of 10 :10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100,110,120 …

Multiples of 15 :15,30,45,60,75,90,105,120…

Multiples of 20 :20,40,60,80,100,120…

Common Multiples of 10,15,20 = 60,120…

L.C.M of 10,15 and 20 = 60

~ Three of them meet the doctor on the 60th day.

(a)

(a)

(a)

(a)
3.

4.

28 NUMBER SYSTEM
Divisors and Factors

MATHEMATICS 29
 Chapter - 2

30 NUMBER SYSTEM
Divisors and Factors

MATHEMATICS 31
32 NUMBER SYSTEM
Fractions and Decimal Numbers

MATHEMATICS 33
 Chapter - 3

34 NUMBER SYSTEM
Fractions and Decimal Numbers

MATHEMATICS 35
 Chapter - 3

36 NUMBER SYSTEM
Fractions and Decimal Numbers

MATHEMATICS 37
 Chapter - 3

38 NUMBER SYSTEM
Fractions and Decimal Numbers

MATHEMATICS 39
 Chapter - 3

40 NUMBER SYSTEM
 Fractions and Decimal Numbers

Add the numerators and write the

same denominator as in step 1

MATHEMATICS 41
 Chapter - 3

42 NUMBER SYSTEM
Fractions and Decimal Numbers

MATHEMATICS 43
 Chapter - 3

44 NUMBER SYSTEM
Fractions and Decimal Numbers

MATHEMATICS 45
 Chapter - 3

46 NUMBER SYSTEM
Fractions and Decimal Numbers

MATHEMATICS 47
 Chapter - 3

48 NUMBER SYSTEM
Fractions and Decimal Numbers

MATHEMATICS 49
 Chapter - 3

50 NUMBER SYSTEM
Fractions and Decimal Numbers

MATHEMATICS 51
 Chapter - 3

52 NUMBER SYSTEM
Fractions and Decimal Numbers

MATHEMATICS 53
 Chapter - 3

54 NUMBER SYSTEM
Fractions and Decimal Numbers

MATHEMATICS 55
 Chapter - 3

56 NUMBER SYSTEM
Fractions and Decimal Numbers

MATHEMATICS 57
 Chapter - 3

58 NUMBER SYSTEM
Fractions and Decimal Numbers

MATHEMATICS 59
 Chapter - 3

60 NUMBER SYSTEM
MATHEMATICS 61
 Chapter - 4

62 MEASUREMENTS
Metric Measures

MATHEMATICS 63
 Chapter - 4

64 MEASUREMENTS
 Metric Measures

ear

MATHEMATICS 65
66 GEOMETRY
Point, Line, Line Segment and Plane

MATHEMATICS 67
 Chapter - 5

68 GEOMETRY
 Point, Line, Line Segment and Plane

5.6.1 COLLINEAR POINTS

Do you know ?

MATHEMATICS 69
 Chapter - 5

‘X’

70 GEOMETRY
Point, Line, Line Segment and Plane

MATHEMATICS 71
 Chapter - 5

72 GEOMETRY
Point, Line, Line Segment and Plane

MATHEMATICS 73
 PRACTICAL GEOMETRY

74 GEOMETRY
Practical Geometry

MATHEMATICS 75
 Chapter - 6

76 GEOMETRY
Practical Geometry

MATHEMATICS 77
78 ANSWERS
MATHEMATICS 79
80 ANSWERS
MATHEMATICS 81
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