6

Fun with Give and Take

Cricket Match
In a cricket match, Sri Lanka made 235
runs.
India has made 123 runs. How many
more runs does India need to win?
To win India must make 236 runs.

Guess...
To win India needs
(a) more than 100 runs
(b) less than 100 runs

Runs India needs to win:

236 123 = ?

Let's subtract
by first taking away s
from s

Runs to win
Runs by India
Runs needed

So we are left with

To win India must make 113 runs

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Try it Yourself
Geeta had Rs 368 in her purse.
She bought a book for Rs 123.
How much money is left in her purse?
Money left in her purse is Rs 368 Rs 123 = ?

Guess...
Money left in Geeta's purse is
(a) more than 200
(b) less than 200

Money in
Geeta's purse
Cost of book

The teacher should discuss with students which number is to be placed above and why.

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Can You Help Nabeela?

Nabeela's mother sent her to the market to buy some things.
She gave her Rs 245. Nabeela bought 1 kg ghee for Rs 127. The
shopkeeper gave her back Rs 98.
(Kilogram is written as kg.)
Did the shopkeeper give her
the right amount?
Let's find out.

Money
Nabeela had
Cost of
Ghee

We cannot take seven

s from five

So borrow
is

Now we have fifteen

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From fifteen s take

away seven
s. Only
eight s left.

Now take away s.

Only one
left.

Now take away

Only one
left.

s.

So tokens left are

The shopkeeper had to give Nabeela Rs 118.

How much more money should the shopkeeper give Nabeela?

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Practice Time
1. Baby tortoise is 33 years old. Mummy tortoise is 150 years
old. How much younger is Baby tortoise than Mummy
tortoise?
Age of Mummy tortoise:
Age of Baby tortoise: 33

150

years

years

Baby tortoise is 117 years younger than Mummy tortoise.

2. Arvind has read 69 pages of a story book. Gouri has read 95
pages of that story book. Who has read more pages and how
many more?

Teachers should motivate students to decide which operation they have to use to solve a problem.
More such exercises can be given where students decide the appropriate operation.

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3. Reena noted the electricity meter readings of her house. Last

month's reading was 118 units. This month's reading is 193
units. How much electricity did she use in one month?
This month's reading
Last month's reading

She used

units of electricity.

4. Khushboo bought a shirt for Rs 125 and trousers for Rs 165.

How much money did she spend altogether?
Bought a shirt for Rs
Bought trousers for Rs

She spent Rs
altogether.
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5. Solve the following:

1 7

1 4

3 9

1 2

8 6

1 0

+2 4

5 8

1 3 9

2 3 7

3 2 5

4 7 4

1 1 0

+ 2 1 3

2 0 4

1 3 6

6 4 2

4 9

1 3 5

4 1 3

+2 0

+ 1 4 6

6. Check your answers yourself:

2 3 6

1 2 2

1 1 4

+1 1 4

1 2 2

2 3 6

3 4 0

2 8
3 1 2

3 1 2
+

2 8

3 4 0

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Check Rashi's subtraction using addition. Give her a 3 for

every right answer.
3 8
2

1 4 1

+ 2 4 3

1 4 1

4 6 8
1

2 2 1

3 5

2 4

1 1

4 6 8
+

1 3 9
2

7. Fill in the missing numbers in the coloured boxes.

7
3

8
5

2 1
1
7
3 2

3
6

4 4
2 3
2

If I take one more

mala she will have
40 beads left!

The teacher should encourage students to discuss and correct the wrong answers. Children love
to correct others' mistakes (for a change!) and also learn from this process.

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Let's Deliver Letters

Postman Uncle is ill today. Let's deliver the letters for him.

481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490

471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480
461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470
451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460
441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450
431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440

Write the correct room numbers on the letters. Then find the
rooms in the above building and circle them.
Make a circle on room 455.

480
9

450
19

Ro om

Ro

8
49 3
2

Room

Ro

om

7
46
2
+2

om

oo

m
Ro

om

1
46
5
+2

2
45 8
+1

426
+38

Room

4
+ 1 29
+2 0
0

430
+20
+13

Room
436

Room

Roo m

467
+1 1

456
20

Room
455

om

oo

445
+10

430
+15

Ro

Ro

6
46 3
3

om

410
+13
+11

R oo m

The teacher should encourage students to solve the problems mentally using the above chart.

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Find the Missing Numbers

Look at the number patterns. Write the missing numbers.
a) 100, 200, 300,

b)

900

800

d)

700

c) 50, 100, 150, 200,

300

, 600,

200

250

400

e)
?

25

35

f ) 280, 260, 240,

g ) 125, 150, 175, 200,

45

, 250,

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Mental Maths
45 + 35?
45 + 30 + 5?

80

A.

35

45

45

80 30 5
= 50 5
= 45

50

50

B.

75

110

60

C.

50

+
D.

32

120

=
320

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Practice Time
1. Indu's pencil is 15 cm long.
Jyoti's pencil is 8 cm long.
Whose pencil is longer?
How much longer?
2. Ask your Papa or Mummy
Price of 1 kilo salt
Price of 1 kilo sugar
Which one is more costly?
How much more does it cost?
3. Ajay cooked chapatis in 25
minutes. Then he made
daal in 15 minutes. How
much time did he take to
cook both things?
4. Chanchal sells school
sweaters. In 2 days she
sold some red, blue and
grey coloured sweaters.

Red

Blue

Grey

Sweaters sold on first day

38

66

74

Sweaters sold on second day

40

23

89

Look at the above and answer the following:

(a) How many grey sweaters did Chanchal sell in 2 days?
(b) Did she sell more red sweaters than blue sweaters in 2 days?
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(c) How many red and grey sweaters did she sell on the first
day more than 120 or less than 120? Tick ( 3 ) the right
answer.
more than 120

less than 120

(d) How many sweaters in all did she sell on the second day
more than 140 or less than 140? Tick ( 3 ) the right answer.
more than 140

less than 140

5. Is Sangeeta right?
Sangeeta went to the
market with her grandpa.

She looked at the prices and said to her grandpa

(a) Ghee is Rs 102 rupees costlier than biscuits.
(b) Price of oil and ghee altogether is more than Rs 200.
(c) Price of ghee and 10 kg rice is less than Rs 300.
(d) Oil costs Rs 40 more than a pack of biscuits.
Is Sangeeta right? Mark ( 3 ) or ( ) in the box.
Can you find this without using paper and pencil?
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Story Problems
Nisha and Sonu were making story problems. Nisha said
13 boys and 14 girls in a class. Sonu, can you make a problem
on it?
Sonu wrote

There are 13 boys and 14 girls in a class.

How many students are there altogether?

You can also make story problems with your friends. Look at
each picture and the words next to it. Write your problem
below it.
A. 36 men and 52 women
waiting for their turn

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B. We have our mid-day meal in 20 minutes and play for

15 minutes.

C. The post office is 1 kilometre from Shahid's home and 2

kilometres from his school.

D. Bunty has read 27 books and Babli has read 34 books.

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Count to Subtract!
Dolma bought 4 dozen (48) bananas and gave one to each of
her friends. 13 bananas were left. How many friends got a
banana?
As you know, this can be found by counting forward from 13. It
is easier to count in jumps of 10. You can also use Kittu's home
shown on page 29 to solve these problems.
48 13
10

10

13

10

23

33

5
43

48

10 + 10 + 10 + 5 = 35
So 48 13 = 35

A. 56 37 =

B. 60 45 = ?

10
37

10
47

45
50
5 + 10 =

56 57

10
60

So 60 45 =

10 + 10 1 =
So 56 37 =
70

80

D. 85 63 =

C. 80 59

59

10

90

60
+

E. 84 69 =

10
70
+

80

F. 60 20 =

G. 90 50 =

So 80 59 =

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All the King's Horses....

Once there was a king who could count only up to 9. Up to
what number can you count?
The king loved horses. But he could never count all of them. He
kept them in such a way that he needed to count only up to 9
from each side.

3
3

3
3

How many horses in all did the king have?

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One day a visitor with 4 horses came there. It was getting dark
so he wanted to stay there at night. But the horse-keeper was
scared. If the king saw these extra horses he would be very
angry! The visitor said do not worry. The king will never
know. So he arranged the horses like this:

5
2

2
5

How many horses are there now?

At night the king came to count the horses. Along each side he
counted 9 horses. Ah! That's fine he said. Then he happily
went to sleep.

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In the morning the clever visitor tried another trick. He took

out his own 4 horses. But he also ran away with some of the
king's horses. He left the king's horses standing in this way.

4
The silly king did not find
any horse missing. Can you
help him?

4
1

How many horses are now left?

How many of the king's horses were taken away?
(Based on a Tamil folk story from the book "Numeracy Counts!")

zzle

Pu
What numbers are we?
If you add us both you get 100.

The difference between us is also 100.

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