Class 5 Mathematics — Chapter 1: Travellers— I

What you'll learn

• ▸Reading and Writing Numbers up to Ten Thousands
• ▸Understanding Place Value (Tens to Ten Thousands)
• ▸Comparing and Ordering Large Numbers
• ▸Identifying and Extending Number Patterns
• ▸Rounding Numbers to Nearest Tens, Hundreds, and Thousands
• ▸Real-World Application of Large Numbers
• ▸Logical Reasoning and Number Puzzles

Chapter Summary

--- PAGE 1 --- ChapterChapter We the 11 Travellers— I When was the last time you went on a long trip? Where did you go? How did you travel? What was the duration of your trip? How much distance did you cover? Ask the elders who went with you to help you answer these questions. Human beings have always been interested in travelling. About a hundred years ago, there were far fewer vehicles than today. There were animal-drawn carts, cars, and trains. Long before this, thousands of years ago, people travelled long distances on foot or used animals to travel from one place to another. They also built boats and ships to travel across lakes, rivers, and seas. Boats were probably the first form of transport invented by humans, much before bullock carts! Do you know how many vehicles are currently there in your state? Reading and writing large numbers How do you write numbers to show several thousand objects? Let us start with 1,000. What numbers do we get when we keep adding a thousand? …

Practice Questions from this Chapter

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3. Describe how submarines travel underwater. Get Solution →
4. What was probably the first form of transport invented by humans, according to the chapter? Get Solution →
5. In the place value chart mentioned, what do the letters 'TTh' stand for? Get Solution →
6. How many hundreds are equivalent to one thousand according to the place value system described? Get Solution →
7. Which animals were specifically mentioned for travel in desert regions in the past? Get Solution →
8. What is the approximate minimum distance a spacecraft can travel in an hour? Get Solution →

Did you know?

• 💡 The first hot air balloon carried a sheep, a duck, and a rooster.
• 💡 A googol is the number one followed by 100 zeros.
• 💡 Ancient Romans built over 400,000 km of roads still used today.
• 💡 The fastest train in the world travels over 600 kilometers per hour.
• 💡 The number zero was not invented until thousands of years after counting began.

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