06: Footprints / Math-Magic

6. Footprints

Bholu and the Footprints

A baby elephant, a hen, a frog and a baby lion.

One day some baby animals were playing on a muddy road in a jungle.

All of sudden an element shouted – Run! Run! Go to your homes. Bholu is coming to shoot with his camera.

So, all the baby animals ran away.

When Bholu came with his camera, all he saw was the footprints of these animals.

Can you match the animals with their footprints?

A man with a camera in his hand, walking in a jungle and is looking at the footprints of baby animals on the muddy road in the jungle.

Draw the footprints of a dog in this box.

A blank space for drawing footprints of a dog.

Make the footprint of your friend on the floor. Is it smaller than yours?

Trace and Guess

A boy is tracing few leaves on a sheet of paper.

Ron is tracing a leaf. You also collect a few things like leaves, pebbles, a stick, a bangle, bindis. Trace each thing here.

Roohi made two different traces of the same bowl.

A girl has made two traces of a bowl, one from its base and the other from the boundary of its rim.

How did Roohi keep the bowl to get two different traces from it?
Look for other things like Roohi's bowl which can give many different traces.

Do at Home

On a newspaper trace the hands of different people in your family. Ask your friends to guess which trace is of your hand, your mother's, your father's, etc.

Read and Draw

Tamanna and her mother are sitting on chairs.
Tamanna is reading a story book.
Her mother is reading a newspaper.
Tamanna and her mother are sitting on the opposite sides of a table.
Draw the missing things in the picture.

An incomplete picture of a girl and a woman. Guidelines are given to complete it.

Children may use different perspectives to draw. For instance, some will try to show the table from the top but might show all its legs too, while some might make only two legs. Leave it to them to draw the shapes as they visualise them. Teachers could use different drawings to discuss about shapes and also how they look different from different sides.

More Fun with Tracing

Collect some things, such as — a potato, a bottle cap, a matchbox cover, a sharpener, an eraser, a spoon, a bus ticket, a coin, a straw. You can also bring other things.
Trace each of these. Ask your friends to guess.

A box, at one corner of it, a child is drawn, who is writing in a notebook. On the borders, there is a design made using shapes circle, square, triangle and rectangle.

Look at the shape of each trace you have made. See if it looks like any of the shapes given here. Write the name of the thing below the shape.


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Help children look at the differences and similarities in the shapes which have come up after tracing. What is similar in the shapes — for instance, between a box and an eraser? These have been placed in the same column. Encourage children to name as many shapes as they can.We need to help the usage of words such as circle, square, rectangle, etc., so that these become a part of the child's vocabulary.

Tarani's Shapes

A girl has made a picture using different shapes like circle, rectangle, square, triangle. There is a cat, a train, a duck and a man.
Tarani made a picture using different shapes.

Look at Tarani's picture and tell.

How many A traingle triangles?

How many A square squares?

How many A rectangle rectangles?

How many A circle circles?

Now you make your own picture using different shapes like A triangle, a square, a rectangle and a circle.

A blank space to draw.

Make a drawing using only A rectangle.

A blank space to make a drawing using rectangles.

Dressing Up Bisania

Bisania wants to dress up for a dance. Use different shapes in the box and draw jewellery on her.

There is a girl and her jewelry box, inside which there are some necklaces, earrings and bangles made using different shapes like a circle, rectangle, square and triangle.