Buffyyour study buddyHi! Ask me about 2D and 3D shapes, faces and edges, tiling, or repeating and growing patterns.
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Look around — flat shapes on a page, solid shapes you can hold, tiles fitting on a floor, and patterns that repeat or grow. Maths is hidden in rangoli, bricks and beads. Tap each idea to explore it.
Play with it
Flat shapes, solid shapes and the patterns they make. Tap each term to see what it means, with an example you can spot at home.
Learn
Worked example. Count the sides and corners of a rectangle.
A rectangle has 4 sides (opposite sides equal) and 4 corners, each a right angle.
Worked example. How many faces, edges and corners does a cube have?
A cube has 6 faces, 12 edges and 8 corners — check it on a dice or a sugar cube.
Worked example. What is the rule and the next number in 5, 10, 15, 20, ___ ?
The rule is “add 5 each time”, so the next number is 25.
Where you’ll meet it
Square and rectangular tiles cover floors with no gaps. Builders choose shapes that tile neatly so the floor looks even and strong.
Festival rangoli and sari borders repeat a small design over and over — a beautiful, real-life repeating pattern.
Cartons are cuboids, tins are cylinders, footballs are spheres. Knowing faces and edges helps when packing and stacking them.
Check yourself
Ten friendly questions — mostly multiple-choice with one assertion–reason — to check that you can use shapes and patterns, not just remember them.
Interactive built to the OpenMAIC approach (THU-MAIC, MIT). Content from the NCERT Class 5 Maths Mela textbook (ncert.nic.in).
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