Fun with Numbers: Class 1 Maths · Chapter 8

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Printable worksheet: Fun with Numbers

8 exercises (missing numbers, matching, sums, circling, drawing) to print on A4 in black and white, with the answer key on the last page. Do them after the lesson.

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Lesson text (for parents and teachers)

Every scene's words in order, as Tara reads them after Start: for reading along, or for a child who cannot hear the narration.

Hello, Mili!
This is Mili. She lives in a town in Odisha.
Today is Boita Bandana, a festival of little boats!
Tara: Hello! I am Tara. Let us count big numbers with Mili!
Ten little boats
Mili and Bapa make little boats.
They line them up in rows of 10.
Activity: How many boats did they make? Tap each one to count.
Twenty-one boats
2 rows of 10 boats, and 1 more.
Ten, twenty, twenty-one boats!
Tara: Count the full rows first: ten, twenty. Then count on!
More boats
Bapa makes 3 more boats.
Activity: How many boats are there now? Tap the number.
Thirty boats!
Mili and Bapa make 6 more boats.
Now there are 3 full rows!
Tara: Ten, twenty, thirty! 3 rows of 10 make 30.
Numbers on boats
Mili writes numbers on three big boats.
Off they float! Every number has a name.
Activity: Join each number to its name. Tap a name to hear it.
Beads at the fair
At the fair, Maa sells bead strings.
Each string has 10 beads.
Tara: 3 strings of 10 and 4 more beads make 34!
Three or four strings?
Maa makes more bead strings.
Tap a basket to hear its name.
Activity: How many full strings of 10 are in each number? Put it in its basket.
Maa's counting string
Maa counts beads on a long string.
After every 10 beads, she ties a knot.
Activity: Which number goes on the empty tag? Tap it.
Stall numbers
Every stall at the fair has a number.
Activity: 36, 37, 38, 39. What number comes next?
Counting back
Mili walks back to Maa's stall.
She counts the stalls backwards.
Activity: 46, 45, 44, 43. What number comes next?
Mili's little tin
How many beads fit in a little tin?
Mili tips them out and makes strings of 10.
Tara: 5 strings and 2 more. 52 beads! That is more than 50!
Diyas for the evening
In the evening, Bapa lights diyas.
Each tray holds 10 diyas.
Tara: 5 trays make 50. 3 more make 53!
Activity: Join each number to its name. Tap a name to hear it.
How many diyas?
Maa and Mili bring more diyas.
Activity: How many diyas are there now? Tap the number.
One hundred!
Now there are 10 full trays.
10 tens make 100. One hundred!
Activity: Bapa counts the trays by tens. 50, 60, 70, 80, 90. What comes next?
A number game
At night, Mili and Bapa play a number game.
Oh! A leaf falls on the board.
Activity: Which number is under the leaf? Tap it.
Mili's picture
Before bed, Mili draws a picture.
Her people are just lines and circles!
Tara: In Odisha, Saura wall paintings show people with lines too!
Activity: How many people are dancing in Mili's picture? Tap the number.
Bye-bye!
You counted boats, beads and diyas in tens.
You counted all the way to 100!
Tara: Super counting! Bye-bye, see you soon!

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Chapter 1: Finding the Furry Cat!
Chapter 2: What is Long? What is Round?
Chapter 3: Mango Treat
Chapter 4: Making 10
Chapter 5: How Many?
Chapter 6: Vegetable Farm
Chapter 7: Lina’s Family
Chapter 8: Fun with Numbers
Chapter 9: Utsav
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Chapter 11: How Many Times?
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