Higher Order Thinking Questions

Class VI MATHEMATICS

Chapter- II

Algebra

1) Write algebraic expression for the following

a) 4 times a member subtracted from 63 leaves a remainder 3.
b) One less than thrice m.
c) Divide the sum of x and 2 times y by 3 times z.

2) One book costs Rs.50 and one pen costs Rs.13. Find the cost of x pens and y books.

3) There are x students in a class. Each student pays Rs.y. Find the total amount A paid
by the students.

4) Sudha travelled ‘a’ km on Monday; ‘b’ km on Tuesday and one third of the product of
a and b on Wednesday. Find the distance travelled by Sudha on three days.

5) Binny spends Rs. a daily and saves Rs. b per week. What is her income for 2 weeks.

6) Pick out the solution from the values given in the bracket and show that the other
values do not satisfy the equation.
3 x +16=4 (3, -2, 4, -4)

7) Breadth of a rectangle is 6 more than one third the length of the rectangle. If the
length of the rest is y find the breadth.

8) Manju’s salary is Rs.2000 less than double her expenditure. If her expenditure is
Rs.x, what is her salary?
Chapter- 9

Data Handling

1) A dice is thrown 20 times and the number appearing is noted as follows

3, 5, 4, 6, 2, 2, 1, 1, 5, 3, 1, 1, 6, 4, 5, 2, 5, 3, 5, 1

Make a table presenting the above data using tally marks. Find the number that
appeared
a) the maximum no. of times
b) the minimum no. of times

2) The weights of new born babies *in kg) in a hospital are as follows.
2.3, 2.2, 2.1, 2.7, 2.6, 3.0, 2.5, 2.9, 2.8, 3.1, 2.8, 2.5, 2.7, 2.9, 2.4
a) Determine the heights in ascending order
b) Determine the highest weight
c) Find the range.
d) How many babies weigh below 2.5 kg?
e) How many babies weigh more than 2.5 kg?

3) A factory produces the foll no. of cycles for the first six months of a particular year.
Draw a pictograph to show this.
Month January February March April May June
Bicycles 3000 3500 5000 7000 8000 10500

4) Say True or False:

a) Diagrams and graphs help in analysis of data.
b) The frequency 7 is represented as VII using tally marks.
c) Bar graphs can be drawn only vertically.
d) In a bar graph the width of the bars must be uniform.
e) The number of times an observation is repeated is called an frequency.
f) The arrayed data is the data arranged only in ascending order.

5) The following data shows the number of books in different subjects in a library.
Subject English Hindi Maths Science Tamil
No of books 350 300 200 150 250

Represent the above data using a bar graph.

Chapter- 5

Understanding Elementary Shapes

1) How many degrees are there in the angle between the hands of the clock when it is
a) 3 O’ Clock b) 12 O’ Clock

2) Draw a rough sketch of pentagon ABCDE and draw its diagonals. How many
diagonals are formed? Name them.

3) A boat is moving north-east. It turns clockwise to north-west. What part of a

revolution has the boat turned through?

4) A man is facing west. He turns anticlockwise to face north east. Through what angle
the man has turned?

5) Which are the following are the models of perpendicular lines.

a) The adjacent edges of a posteard.
b) The edges of a railway track.
c) The line segment forming by the symbol of addition +
d) The line segment forming the letter X

6) A wheel has 24 spokes, find the angle between a pair of adjacent spokes.

7) A disc spins through 22 right angles. How many revolutions does it make?

8) How many times during the day do the hands of a clock form a straight line?
Chapter-14

Practical Geometry

1) Draw ABC of measure 80 and find its line of symmetry.

2) Draw a line segment of 10 cm and divide into 4 equal parts.

3) Construct an angle of 75 using ruler and compasses only.

4) Draw an angle of 160 and divide it into 4 equal parts. Check it by actual
measurement.
 Mensuration

1) The length of a rectangular field is twice its breadth. A man jogged around it 5 times
and covered a distance of 3 km. What is the length of the field.

2) What will happen to the area of a square if its side is

a) Doubled b) halved

3) The total cost of flooring a room at Rs.8.50 per sq.m is Rs.510. If the length of the
room is 8m, find its breadth.

4) How long will it take a boy to go around a regular pentagon of side 7m, at a speed of
5 m per minute.

5) How many times will a boy have to run around a square plot where length is 60m to
cover a distance of 6 km.

INTEGERS

1) The sum of two integers is 238. If one of the integer is -122 determine the other.

2) Calculate the sum of : 5+ (-5) + 5+ (-5)….

(i) If the number of terms is 10
(ii) If the number of terms is 11

3) If ‘a’ & ‘b’ are two integers such that ‘a’ is the predecessor of ‘b’.
Find the value of a - b

4) On a particular day, the temperature of Delhi at 10.00am was 13C but by the
midnight, it fall down to 6 C . The temperature of Chennai at 10.00am, the same day
was 18C but fell down to 10C by the midnight, which fall is greater?

5) In a mathematics examination Jivan got 7 marks less than Sowan. Jivan got 5 marks
more than Rashmi. Soman got 75 marks. How many marks did Jivan and Rashmi get?

6) Find two numbers whose sum is 15 and their difference is 1.

7) A shopkeeper has a profit of 50 on Monday, a loss of 20 on Tuesday, and a loss

of 18 on Wednesday. Find his net profit or loss in these days.

8) Neeraj travelled 25 km north and Amit travelled 89 km south from the same point.
Find the distance between final destinations of the two.
 Ratio & Proportion

1) A metal alloy is made in the ratio of three parts tin to five parts lead. How much tin
needs to be mixed with 22 kg of lead.

2) Two numbers x and y are in the ratio of 7:4, if their sum is 55, what are the two
numbers?

3) The ratio of novels in a library to other books is 2:7. If the total number of novels in it
is 1600, then find the total number of books.

4) Renuka is 12 years old. Her brother Sanjay is 3 years older and her mother is 40 years
old. Find the ratio between
(a) Renuka’s age and Sanjay’s age.
(b) Sanjay’s age and his mother’s age.

5) Find the ratio of the price of coffee to that of tea, when coffee costs Rs.24 per 100 gm
and the tea costs Rs.80 per kg.

6) Shanul and David invested 2000 and 3000 in a shop and made a profit of 1800
in the business. How should they distribute the profit? Find their shares.

7) An office opens at 9.30 am and closes at 5.30 pm with a lunch interval of 30 minutes.
What is the ratio of the lunch interval to the total period in the office?