What’s in a Name?: Class 3 Maths · Chapter 1

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Printable worksheet: What’s in a Name?

10 exercises (missing numbers, circling, drawing, matching, sums) 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.

A rabbit with no name
Class 3 has a new pet rabbit.
But the rabbit has no name yet!
Tara: Hello! I am Tara. Let us find a name, and count a lot!
Before numbers
Long ago, people kept one pebble, knot or mark for each thing.
One mark for one thing. That is how counting began!
Tara: Can you keep count without saying any numbers?
Enough pencils?
Tenzin gives one pencil with each notebook.
Activity: Pair one pencil with each notebook. Which group has fewer?
One vote, one line
Each vote is one line.
The fifth line goes across, making a bundle of 5.
Tara: Bundles of 5 are quick to count: 5, 10, 15…
Count the votes
Activity: How many votes did Bholu get? Count the bundle of 5 first.
Welcome, Chandni!
Chandni got 12 votes, the most!
Moti got 7 and Bholu got 9. That is 28 votes in all.
Tara: Welcome, Chandni! What a pretty name.
Letters in a name
Chandni has 7 letters. Moti has 4.
So Chandni is the longer name.
Tara: Touch each letter as you count it.
Count the letters
Activity: Count the letters in each name. Match the name to its number.
Short and long names
Activity: Sort the names: 4 letters or fewer, or 5 letters or more?
First letters
Look at the first letter of each name.
Activity: Which letter starts the most names in Row 2?
Numbers have names
Numbers have names too: six has 3 letters, twelve has 6.
We do not count the little dash in twenty-one.
Tara: Does a bigger number always have a longer name?
Sort the number names
Activity: Count the letters in each number name. Put it in the right group.
Longer name?
70 is bigger than 21. But which has the longer name?
Activity: Which number has the longer name?
A number riddle
Ms Lyngdoh writes a riddle on the board.
Activity: I am between 10 and 20. My name has 8 letters and starts with f. Who am I?
Many ways to group
We can put things in groups in many ways.
Let us sort these things in two ways!
Tara: Same things, different rules.
Round or not round?
Activity: First rule: is it round, or not round?
Same things, new rule
Now mix them up. Here is a new rule!
Tara: The orange was in the round group. Now it goes with things we eat!
Activity: New rule: can we eat it, or not?
How we come to school
Class 3 made a tally chart: one mark for each child.
Activity: Which way do the fewest children come to school?
Bye from Chandni
You counted marks, letters and votes.
You sorted the same things in two ways!
Tara: Great work! Now count the letters in your own name.

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