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CBSE Class 8 Maths Activities

The document outlines 10 math activities for an 8th grade class involving shapes, angles, and geometry. The activities include verifying properties of angles in polygons through paper cutting and pasting, making shapes by folding paper, surveying classmates about TV watching habits and representing the data in pie charts and histograms, exploring number patterns, drawing views of 3D shapes, calculating volumes of cubes and cuboids using unit cubes, and exploring the relationships between length, perimeter, and area for squares of different sizes.

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CBSE Class 8 Maths Activities

The document outlines 10 math activities for an 8th grade class involving shapes, angles, and geometry. The activities include verifying properties of angles in polygons through paper cutting and pasting, making shapes by folding paper, surveying classmates about TV watching habits and representing the data in pie charts and histograms, exploring number patterns, drawing views of 3D shapes, calculating volumes of cubes and cuboids using unit cubes, and exploring the relationships between length, perimeter, and area for squares of different sizes.

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CLASS – 8

Activity 1: Fold a paper 8 times in any way. Unfold and locate various convex and
concave polygons.

Activity 2: To verify that the sum of interior angles of a quadrilateral is 3600 by paper
cutting and pasting.

Activity 3: To verify that the sum of measures of the exterior angles of any polygon is
3600 by paper cutting and pasting.

(Note: Verify the result for a triangle, quadrilateral, pentagon and


hexagon)

Activity 4: To make the following by paper folding and cutting

a. a kite
b. a rhombus

Activity 5: To verify that

i) diagonals of a rectangle are of equal length


ii) diagonals of a square are of equal length
iii) Investigate the results for a rhombus and a parallelogram
, using stretched threads.

Activity 6: (Group Activity)

a) Do a survey of your class and collect the data from all students of your
class who spent more than 4 hours in watching TV. Represent the
collected data, in the form of a histogram by paper cutting and pasting.
b) Write how much you spent during a day in the following headings

i) school ii) homework iii) play iv) sleep


v) watching TV vi) others
Represent the information in a Pie chart.

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Activity 7: To observe the following number patterns and generate it up to next three
steps

i) 12 = 1
112 = 1 2 1
1112 = 1 2 3 2 1

ii) 1+3 = 4 = 22
1+3+5 = 9 = 32
1+3+5+7 = 162 = 42

(Note: Teacher may take any other such number patterns)

Activity 8: Draw front view, top view and side view of the following shapes made by
unit cubes.

Activity 9: To make cubes and cuboids of given dimensions using unit cubes
and to calculate volume of each.

(i) 4x3x2
(ii) 3x3x3

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Activity 10: To explore the relationship between


(i) Length (in cm) and perimeter (in cm)
(ii) Length (in cm) and area (in cm2)
of 5 squares of different dimensions drawn on a squared paper.

Length of a Square 1 Square 2 Square 3 Square 4 Square 5


side (L)
Perimeter
(P)
Area (A)
P/L
A/L

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