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1. Where to Look From

Drawing of a car made by Dheeraj.

Our teacher told us to draw a picture of a car. We all drew the car differently. Next  day, when we showed our pictures to each other, we were very excited. But Anshul started laughing. He was looking at Dheeraj's drawing of a car.

Anshul said - it looks like a small box kept in a bigger one. Then Anshul showed his drawing to Dheeraj.

Drawing of a car made by Anshul.

Both of them drew the picture of the same car. But the drawings look different.

Dheeraj said he had looked at the car from the terrace. Do you think his funny drawing is right?


  • Have you looked at things from different sides?

Top side of a table.

Do they look the same or different?


  • Look at the pictures drawn here. How does the table look from the side?

A table.  

Which picture is from the top?

Some pictures are drawn below. Imagine how these things will look if seen from the top.

A pressure cooker. A slipper.   A fruit.   A cupboard.

Will they look like this?

Top side of a pressure cooker. Top side of a slipper.  Top side of a cut fruit. Top side of a cupboard.


Practice Time

A cat peeping into a classroom from a window.


A. A cat is peeping into a classroom. Can you help her find out where the teacher is?



B. Here are some pictures. Find out from where you have to look to see the things this way.

A staircase picture taken from the side. A staircase picture taken from the top. Picture of a table taken from the top.

Picture of a chair taken from the side. Picture of a pencil taken from the top. Picture of a bus taken from the side.

C. Draw top views of a few things and ask your friends to guess what they are.


Rangoli

A girl is making different rangoli patterns on the floor and the boy is talking about her.

Have you ever made a rangoli? My friend Meenakshi makes beautiful floor patterns.

I am Meenakshi. I belong to Tamil Nadu. We make Kolam patterns every morning. They are made by using dots.

You can also try and use the dots given below to make patterns. Two patterns have been drawn here.

Patterns drawn by using dots.


Make Other Patterns Yourself

1. Copy these shapes on the dot grid. Note that some lines in the shapes are straight and some are not.

Patterns made by joining dots.


2. Use the dot grid given below to draw your own designs and shapes.

A dot grid.

3. Complete these figures to make squares and rectangles.

Incomplete squares and rectangles on a dot grid.


4. On the dot grid given below, draw the following:

a) a kite

b) a leaf

c) a flower

d) a boat

e) a star

f ) a pot

A dot grid.

  • Note for teachers and parents - Free play with shapes on a dot grid can help develop children's understanding of shapes and symmetries. The chapter begins with activities to show how 2-dimensional pictures can represent 3-dimensional objects as seen from different perspectives. This is related to symmetries, an important aspect of shapes further developed in Chapter 5.


Tit for Tat

One day Amina met a painter.

A girl talking to a painter.

Can you make my picture?

Yes, sure! I charge Rs 200 for it.

Painter is showing half painting of the girl and the girl is unhappy to see it.

After a while the painter showed her the picture.

Amina! How do you like it?

But this is only half!

Painter is showing other half of the painting by putting a mirror.

The other half is exactly the same. So just put a mirror to get the complete picture.

Now can I have my money?

Amina gave him a hundred-rupee note.

Girl is showing the mirror to a Hundred rupee note and the painter is unhappy with it.

But this is only half the money!

The other half is exactly the same. So just put a mirror next to the note to get the full money! Ha, ha!


The painter had made many such pictures in which he drew only one half of the things. Draw the other half of these pictures and find out what these things are. Try doing it with a mirror.

Some half drawn paintings made by the painter.

Can we repeat the painter's trick, while drawing pictures of the following?

Painting of a caterpillar, a cup and India flag.

If you ask the painter to draw things which cannot be divided into two similar mirror halves, then he cannot play the trick. Draw three more such things which do not have similar mirror halves.


Mirror Halves

Look at the pictures given below. Does the dotted line divide each picture into two similar mirror halves?

A triangle divided from left corner. A triangle divided vertically from the middle. A triangle divided horizontally from the middle. A square divided in diagonal a little away from the corners.

An upside down triangle divided vertically from the middle. A tree divided horizontally from the middle. Letter B divided horizontally from the middle. Letter T divided vertically from the middle.

A rhombus divided into two triangles. A glass shaped image divided horizontally from the middle. A heart divided vertically from the middle. Letter M divided vertically from the middle.

A triangle divided from middle from the right corner. Two triangles divided vertically from the middle. A kite shaped image divided in a big and small rhombus. A rectangle divided in diagonal from bottom left corner to top right corner.

Give some more examples.

  • In two rectangles above, the dotted line cuts each into identical halves, but note that they are not mirror halves?


Using a dotted line, can you divide the following pictures into two similar halves?

A comb.   An envelope.   Number Eight.   A pair of scissors.

A button. A kettle.   A pencil.   A mug.

A crown.   A dress.   A bell.   A floppy disc.

An aeroplane.   A tool.   Number two.   A pair of goggles.

A suitcase.   An iron.   An umbrella.   A clock.


Can you guess these letters from their halves?

Half alphabet shown on a folded sheet.   Half alphabet shown on a folded sheet.   Half alphabet shown on a folded sheet.  

Half alphabet shown on a folded sheet.   Half alphabet shown on a folded sheet.   Half alphabet shown on a folded sheet.

Using such letters we can also make words which have similar halves.

Guess the words by looking at their halves.

Half word shown on a folded sheet.   Half word shown on a folded sheet.   Half word shown on a folded sheet.   Half word shown on a folded sheet.


Making A Mask

A cartoon of a housefly.

Now, I can teach you how to make the mask of a cat...

Take a piece of paper.

A piece of paper folded from the middle. 

Fold it along the middle.

Drawing of half cat face on one side of the folded paper.Cut out of half face of the cat.

On one side draw the figure. Cut it out using a pair of scissors.

A cat mask.

Now open the fold and make the eyes, nose etc.

A rubber band tied at the back of the cat mask.

Colour it and tie a rubber band on its back. Your mask is ready.

You can make more such masks by taking help from the following pictures.

A half girl face drawn on folded sheet of paper. A half elephant face drawn on folded sheet of paper. A half deer face drawn on folded sheet of paper.