Alternatives to Homework

MATHEMATICS
Class–VII
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1. Integers 1. Make the butterfly beautiful 25 minutes Creativity

Description: Draw butterfly as shown in sample. Imagination
1. Use red colour for negative integer and green colour Expression
for positive integer.
Aesthetic skills
2. For every integer, use one geometrical figure.
Logic
3. Complete the design of butterfly wings as shown in
example.

2. The jumping frog 20 minutes Thinking skills

Description: Imagination
1. Represent the given situation diagrammatically and Value: Try-try till you
mathematically. succeed

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2. Use different colours for positive and negative
integers.
3. In how many jumps will he come out of the well?
4. Which value do you learn from the frog?
Situation:
A frog is there in a 12m deep well. The frog wants to jump
out of the well. Every time he jumps 3m and falls back by
1m.

3. Play with balls 20 minutes Creativity

Description: Imagination
Students are supposed to take two different coloured Critical Thinking
sketch pens, same number of identical balls are to be
drawn for one integer as indicated. Perform activity
according to given example. (We know –ve symbol means
opposite/change of colour)
Example:
Let, Green for +ve integer
Red for –ve integer
1) 2 x 3 (2 times 3)

2) –2 x (–3) {–2 times (–3)} {6}

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Show the following in the form of pictures of balls.

i) –3 x 4
ii) 2 x –4
iii) –3 x –4
iv) 4 x 5

2. Fractions and 1. Supermarket sale 20 minutes Understanding

Decimal Description: Critical Thinking
In the super market there are five shopkeepers A, B, C, D, Reasoning
E. If shopkeeper A sells his 2/3 of products in a day, B
sells 3/7 of products, C sells 4/5 of products in a day, D
sells 5/6 of products in a day and E sells 7/8 of products
in a day, who sells more products in a day? Cut 5 equal
circles and represent each fraction on the circles and find
the largest fraction and the smallest fraction.

2. Tangram activity 2 20 minutes Critical Thinking

Description: Logic
1. Draw a big square. Convert into four small squares by Reasoning
paper folding activity. Now we can see each part is
1/4 of the whole.
Again you can divide figure into other parts as directed in
the figure and decide the value of each part.

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3. Plan your junk food Observation

Description: Conversion
Take a small packet of wafers. List out the ingredients Correlation
with their weights and calories.
Sensitisation
1. Find out total calories consumption.
2. Convert the weight of each ingredient in fraction and
then decimal.
3. Why should we avoid junk food? Name any two
Interdisciplinary
with Science healthy foods.

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3. Data Handling 1. Bar Graph 20 minutes Analysis

Description: Critical Thinking
List out birth years of your family members at least 7 (if
required the birth years of relatives may also be taken).
Draw bar graph on A4 size pastel sheet.

2. Fruit Basket 20 minutes Critical Thinking

Description: Complete the following data. Analysis
S. Name of Fruit Price in Price in Application
No. current week previous week
1. Apples
2. Bananas
3. Papaya
4. Oranges/Mausami
5. Coconut
Which of the fruit shows -
1. Maximum difference in price of current week and price of
precious week.
2. Minimum difference in price of current week and
previous week.

3. Family Survey 20 minutes Communication

Description: Interpretation
Collect data of number of family members of 10 Analytical
neighbourhood families and find mean, mode and
median.

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4. Simple Equations 1. Hide and seek 20 minutes Critical Thinking

Description: Application
From the table, choose any one item from each column to Analysis
form an equation and solve it. Form at least 3 equations.
One example is done for you. The items chosen in this
case are encircled in the table.
–18a + (–3/5) = 21
–18a = 21 + (3/5) = 108/5
a = (108/5) x (1/–18) = –180/90 = –6/5

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2. Your home 20 minutes Critical Thinking

Description: Application
Note down postal pin code of your place where you
reside. Take x times of last 2 digits of that pin code and
add number of family members to it. Put it equal to your
age solve for x on A4 coloured sheet.

5. Lines and Angles 1. Coloured wheel 20 minutes Creativity

Description: Logical Thinking
Draw a circle. Mark 8 points on its boundary. Join 2 points Application
at a time to get 4 diameters.
1. Name all line segments and all angles obtained.
2. Colour all parts (known as sectors) with different
colours.
3. Measure all 8 angles and find their sum of identify the
supplementary and complementary angles.

2. The angle grid 20 minutes

Description:
1. The students will be given a grid with 9 pairs of angles
with their properties, written randomly.
2. The students will cut out the given grid into 18
triangular pieces and arrange them pair wise to form 9
squares i.e. each paper of angles with its identification
criteria.
3. Now the students will arrange the 9 squares to form a
(3 x 3) grid.

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Illustration:

6. The Triangles 1. Direction of triangle 20 minutes Creativity

and their
Properties Description: Draw two different scalene triangles. Imagination
1. Draw median with red colour. Presentation
2. Draw altitude with green colour. Critical Thinking

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3. Draw angle bisector of any one angle with blue colour.
4. Draw perpendicular bisector of any one side with
orange colour.
Label the figures completely.

2. Triangle crossword puzzle. 20 minutes Critical Thinking

Description: Analysis
A crossword with clues will be given to the students. Logical Thinking
Across:
1. A triangle with all sides equal.
4. A triangle with unequal sides.
6. The sides of the right triangle other than hypotenuse.
8. The property which says h2 = p2 + b2
9. Distance of a vertex of a triangle to its opposite base.
Down:
2. Side opposite to the right angle of a right triangle.
3. A triangle in which two sides are equal.
5. A line segment drawn perpendicular to one side of a
triangle from its opposite vertex.
7. The line segment joining the midpoint of one side of a
triangle to its opposite vertex.

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3. Fun with match sticks 25 minutes Planning and

Description: organising
Take 3 sets of match sticks as mentioned below. Observation
Set A – [1 stick, 2 sticks, 3 sticks] Creativity
Set B – [2 sticks, 2 sticks, 5 sticks] Critical Thinking
Set C – [3 sticks, 4 sticks, 5 sticks]

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Taking sticks (as mentioned above) as length of sides of
triangle, try to form triangle for each set. Note down your
observations.

7. Congruence of 1. Fly in Air 20 minutes Creativity

Triangles Description: Let ABC RQP Presentation
Draw these 2 triangles using same colour. Cut out these Critical Thinking
triangles and paste on appropriate position for aeroplane
wings as given in the figure below. How many more
congruent triangles can be drawn in the given figure.
Draw them

2. Tangram Activity 25 minutes Creativity

Description: Analysis
Students will be made to cut the 7 pieces of a tangram Observation
from the following figure.

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Logical Thinking

1. Find two pairs of congruent triangles from the 7 given

pieces.
2. Make a triangle using the congruent triangles 4 and 5.
Place this triangle on the triangle 3.
3. Is the new triangle congruent to the triangle 3?
4. Make a square using two congruent triangles 1 and 2.
Is this square congruent to the original square piece
from which the tangram set was made? Give reasons.

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8. Comparing 1. Let's come to an imaginary world! 25 minutes Critical Thinking

Quantities Description: Analysis
Chalk down your routine in tabular form as mentioned
below.

S. No. Activity No. of Fraction of %

Hours hours per day
1. School
2. Playing

3. Watching T.V

4. Computers

5. Sleeping
(Percent means out of 100)
Assume there are 100 hours in a day. Now again write
down your routine in the table.
S. Activity Fraction of hours %
No. per day in
imaginary world
1. School

2. Playing

3. Watching T.V
4. Computers

5. Sleeping

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9. Rational 1. Way to home Critical Thinking

Numbers Description: Logical Thinking
Activity to be done on A-4 Size coloured sheet. Value- Helping the
others

Negative distance means distance in opposite direction.

1. Rohan wants to give lift to an old lady and drop her to
home. Find how much distance should he have to
cover.
2. What value do you learn from Rohan?

2. Puzzle 20 minutes Critical Thinking

Description: Analysis
Cut and rearrange with correct answers.

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3. Rational Circuit diagram 20 minutes Critical Thinking

Description: Application
Perform the activity on A4 size pastel sheet. Analysis

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10. Practical Parallel Lines and Triangles 20 minutes Observation

Geometry 1. Identify the parallel lines and triangles in the following Identification
picture and write down in your note-book. Make similar
Creative and Critical
pictures and identify the parallel lines and triangle in
Thinking
them also.

11. Perimeter and 1. Robotic Maths 2 Days

Area Description: Do as directed 20 minutes
Per Day
1. Make robot with
different coloured sheets.
2. Calculate perimeter and
area of all figures (17
figures)
Hint : Use figure with
dimensions as per your
requirement.

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12. Algebraic 1. Construct New Algebraic Expressions 20 minutes Thinking Skills

Expressions Description: Fill in the gaps. Analysis
Algebraic Expression: Application

13. Exponents and 1. Magic Square 20 minutes Thinking and Logical

Powers Description: Skills
Complete the following magic square filling in the empty
boxes with numbers in
exponential rotations
with a prime number as
the base. The numbers
when simplified and
added should give you
the same sum row wise,
column wise or
diagonally.

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2. Paper Folding Activity 20 minutes Critical Thinking

Demonstration: Analysis
Draw four rectangles in a row, exactly identical to Application
represent the exponential function with two parts of the
Logical Thinking
rectangles as shown below:

Cut each rectangle and fold them along the lines marked
and number of small rectangles that are formed.
In rectangle (a) 0 fold of 2 parts.
or 20 = 1
In rectangle (b) one fold of 2 parts or 21 = 2
In rectangle (c) two folds of 2 parts or 22 = 4
In rectangle (d) three folds of 2 parts or 23 = 8

14. Symmetry 1. Garden of Flower 20 minutes Symmetry in nature

Description: Application
Out of a swarm of bees, one fifth settled on a blossom of Exploring the uses of
Rose, and one third on a flower of Sun flower, and three flowers
times the difference of those numbers flew to the bloom of
a marigold. One bee, which remained hovered and flew
about in the air, allured at the same moment by the

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pleasing fragrance of a jasmine and pandanus. What are
the number of bees?
a) Paste a petal of each of the above said flowers and
draw the line of symmetry (if any)
b) Give one useful product made from each of the three
flowers for our daily needs.

2. Album of symmetrical shapes 20 minutes Observation

Description: Creativity
Line of symmetry is found in abundance everywhere Critical Thinking
around us. Collect samples of symmetrical figures found
in nature, in your house, school etc. and prepare an
album.

3. Symmetry on roads 20 minutes Observation

Description: Understanding
The students will be given some road signs. They will Analysis
draw the line of symmetry if any. If there is no line of
Critical Thinking
symmetry then they will mention that the figure is non -
symmetric. They will name the road sign and explain in a
sentence, its meaning.

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15. Visualising Solid 1. Play with Dice 20 minutes Creativity

shapes Description: Critical Thinking
1. Make two solid cubes using cards. Application
2. From the two cubes, make two dice with conditions :
(i) Top face number 6 and number 2 is adjacent to 4.
(ii) Bottom face has number 3 and number 4 is adjacent to
5.

2. Solids from nets 25 minutes Creativity

Prepare net of cube, cuboid, cylinder, cone using Analysis
cardboard and then make solids using them, of different
Logical Thinking
dimensions.
Pastel sheets and cardboard may also be used for making
solids.

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