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Children should be encouraged to look around and see how lengths of different things are measured
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in different ways using local or non-standard units. For example, rope, garlands or cloth may be
sold by the cubit, handspan, fingers, etc. They also need to do activities of measuring lengths
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How Many?
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❋ In how many steps will
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Dorji cross the road?
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❋ How many cups can be
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placed in a line on this
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❋ How many pots can be
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8 How Much is a Centimetre (cm)?
Now, look at a scale that you find in a geometry box. How many
centimetres does it have?
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The small scale that you mostly use in school is like this one.
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Is it easier to start measuring from the 0 mark? Look at the
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things drawn near the scale and find out their lengths.
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❋ What are the little lines on the scale used for?
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❋ Look for things that are
❋ About 10 centimetres long
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❋ Between 10 and 20 centimetres long
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❋ Less than 1 cm long. Mouse! Where
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❋ Draw some of them here. are you?
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How Big is My Hand?
Measure the length of your
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little finger?
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Bring a measuring-tape to
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My measurement My friend's
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Nose centimetres centimetres
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Around the wrist centimetres centimetres
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Around the head centimetres centimetres
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Ear centimetres centimetres
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✒ Who has the longest hand
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(from middle finger to wrist)?
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✒ Which is longer? Your ear or
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Gibli and the Grains
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Ant Gibli has to reach the grains. She is looking for the shortest
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Can you draw a road shorter than these? What is the length of
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that road?
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It is more important for children to be able to get an estimate of a metre as related to known
things, such as, their own heights, rather than do tedious exercises of converting metres to
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centimetres, etc. Children at this stage may not be able to perceive of bigger units such as a
kilometre. They must be encouraged to speak of a kilometre in the context of a story or narrative.
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The Map of Agra is an exercise with a narrative involving children, with familiar images (icons) to
help the initial understanding of mapping in 2 dimensions.
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Take 2 metres cloth
How Long is a Metre?
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A metre is equal to 100 centimetres
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And how many
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metres for a long
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Let Us Make a Metre-rope
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You must have seen shopkeepers measuring cloth with a
metre rod.
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✒ Use a metre rod and a rope.
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✒ Make a knot at one end of the rope.
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a knot there.
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If you don't get a metre rod use a measuring-tape and mark 100
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Activity 1
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1 metre 1 metre
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Length of table – –
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Width of table – –
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Width of door – –
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Now make a chart of the heights of your friends.
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To measure the centimetres, you can use your small scale.
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Name Taller/Shorter/Equal How many centimetres more
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Shambhu Taller 4 centimetres
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Centimetres or Metres?
Which of these will be in centimetres and which will be in
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❈ Length of a banana
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❈ Waist of an elephant
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❈ Height of a sugarcane
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❈ Depth of a well
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Trip to Agra
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Marie and Baichung are going with their family to Agra. They
get down at Agra Cantt. Railway Station and take a rickshaw to
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Taj Mahal. After 3 hours, they start for Agra Fort, again in a
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MAP OF AGRA
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Railway Station
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Now look at the distances between these places (for kilometres
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❖ Agra Cantt. Railway Station to Taj Mahal – 5 km
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❖ Taj Mahal to Agra Fort – 2 km
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❖ Agra Fort to Fatehpur Sikri – 40 km
Now find from the map
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❖ Which is farther from Agra Cantt. Railway Station — Taj Mahal
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23 Match the Correct Length
Draw lines to match each picture with how long it can be.
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Length of an 2 kilometres
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earthworm
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The Long Tail Competition
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The animals in this picture had a
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competition. The animal who had the
longest tail won a prize. Now who do
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who won the second....? Just guess
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the length of the longest tail.
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Do I have
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