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4-Digit Numbers 31

III. CASE STUDY
Madur, Meena, Sargam, Suhashni Preeti Meena Sargam Suhashni Madur 8 m
and Preeti participated in a 100 m 12 m

race. Madur is nearest to the fi nishing
line. He is about 8 m far from it. 16 m
Suhashni is there behind him. Sargam, 20 m
Meena and Preeti are running behind 24 m
Suhashni respectively.

Read the above paragraph carefully and answer the following questions.
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1. What is the distance between Meena and Sargam in the race?
(a) 16 m (b) 20 m (c) 4 m (d) 2 m

2. How far is Preeti from the fi nishing line?
(a) 24 m (b) 20 m (c) 16 m (d) 12 m

3. How far is Suhashni ahead from Meena?
(a) 8 m (b) 20 m (c) 12 m (d) 32 m

4. Who is at the third position?

(a) Sargam (b) Meena (c) Preeti (d) Suhashni

A C T I V I T Y T I M E

Objective: To build the concept of place value in 4-digit numbers.

Materials Required: Glazed paper strips—red, blue, green and yellow.
Procedure:

1. Cut shapes and write numbers—triangles from red coloured glaze paper, circles
from blue coloured glaze paper,

squares from green coloured glaze
100
paper and rectangles from yellow 1000 100 100 100 10 10 10 10 1 1 1 1
1000
1000
1000
coloured glaze paper as shown.
2. The teacher will write a 4-digit number on the board. For example; 3142 The students
will form the numbers by pasting diff erent shapes.