ORDERING NUMBERS

Descending Order
When we arrange numbers in decreasing order. that is from greatest to smallest, it is
also called descending order.
These are the four different kinds of waste that were collected in a towWn over a month
for recycling. Rearrange them in descending order.
Metal waste 7,824 kg
Paper waste -7,756 kg
Plastic waste -8,586 kg Glass waste 7,672 kg
7,756 Third biggest
7,756 7,756 Smallest
Second biggest 7,672
8,586- Biggest number (7,824
7,824 7,672
7,672
In descendingorder it is 8,586, 7,824, 7,756, 7,672.
Keep crossing
out numbers as
7,756 kg 7,672 kg you rewrite them
8,586 kg 7,824 kg Glass waste
Metal waste Paper waste from smallest to
Plastic waste
greatest. Youcan
Ascending Order do the same for
that
When we arrange numbers in increasing order, descending order.
ascending order.
is from smallest togreatest, it isalso called
ascending order.
Arrange 3,295, 7,659, 3,265, and 8,654 in
3,295, 7,659, 3,265, 8,654 3,265
3,295, 7,659, 8,654 3,265, 3,295
7,659, 8,654 3,265, 3,295, 7,659
8,654 3,265, 3,295, 7,659, 8,654

ascending order and descending order

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Project
Carry a notebook on your next road journey.
Copy down the number plates of any two cars you may spot.
Compare the 4-digit numbers on the number plate. 1,375 <1832.
Add the digits of each number.
1+3+7+5=16 1+8+3 +2 =14
Compare again. 16 > 14.
Do this several times. Keep a record. DL5CAE 1375
UP8ARG 1832

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Exercise lD
descending order.
1. Rewrite in decreasing or
a. 2,841 6,918 325
b. 4,395 4,593 3,935
C. 8,700 8,070 8,007
9,119 1,199 9,090
d. 1,919
6,926 6,296 8,050
e. 8,341
Rewrite in increasing or ascending order.
2. a. 2,090 384 1,873
b. 4,893 3,983 3,619
C. 6,543 6,345 6,534
2,030 3,003 2,300
d. 7,314
e. 6,294 8,368 8,663 6,090

Challenge!
four children aged6, 7, 8, and 9 years,given in days.
These are the ages of years.
the numbers and rearrange to match them to the
Study 2920 days
3285 days 2190 days
2555 days

7 years 8years 9years

6 years

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Projeet
Look at the pattern. d. 1 3 5
C. 1 3 5
a. 1 b. 1 3

" How many green squares on the biggest square?

" What can yousay about the number pattern you have
made?
Extend the pattern using the colour orange on your own square-lined paper.

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Which number will you place first when arranging numbers in descending order?Why?

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BUILDING NUMBERS
World Environment Daywas first observed on June 5th,
in the year 1972. Thedigits making up the year are 1,9, 7, and 2.
Greatest Number
a. How will youarrange these digits to make the greatest
number possible?
1 9 7 2
Try This!
To build the greatest number, write the digits in
descending order--biggest to smallest. Form the greatest 4-digit
number.
7 2 1
a. 4,8, 7, 5
b. 9,3, 6,3
b. 5,2, 2, 7
The descending order of these digits is
9,6,3,3. So 9,633 is the greatest
number possible using these digits.
Smallest Number
a. Rearrange the digits 1,9, 7,2 to make the smallest number possible.
1279
To build the smallest number, write the
digits in ascending order-smallest to biggest. Try This!
b. 5,4, 7,5 Form the smallest 4-digit
number.
The ascending order of these digits is 4, 5, 5, 7. a. 6,2, 1, 8
So 4,557 is the smallest 4-digit number
possible using these digits. b. 3,3, 9,4
Watch out for the 'zeros'
Use the digits 5, 0,and 2 to buld the greatest and C. 7,0, 6, 9
the smallest 3-digit numbers possible.
Greatest number is 520.
Smallest number is 205.
Since we want to use all these digits we cannot make 025,which is the
same as 25
(a2-digit number).

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ExerciselE
1 Build the greatest and the smallest numbers using all the given digits.
Greatest number Smallest number
Digits
6,3, 4

b 0, 8,9
C. 5,4,2, 8

d. 0, 6,9, 7
e. 1,3,9, 7

following.
2. Match the The smallest 4-digit number
a. 9,999 i.
ii. The greatest 4-digit number
b. 1,000 different digits
C. 9,876 ii. The smallest 4-digit number using
different digits
iv. The greatest 4-digit number using
d. 1,023

Challenge!
shows 10:30. As a number it reads 1030.
This is a digital clock. Right now it display to half past the hour?
four-digit number the clock can
*What is the biggest
* What is the smallest four-digit number
it can display to the exact hour?

Biggest number Smallest number

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al thio
* Why do we put the biggest digit in the greatest place while building
the greatest number?
* Why do we put the smallest digit in the greatest place while building the smallest
number?

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ROUNDING NUMBERS
Sometimeswe don't need touse exact numbers.
We can say about 50 people volunteered toclean the beach.
Here we use 50 asarounded number-the actual number
can be a little more, or a little less than 50.
Rounding tothe Nearest 10
Thisnumber line is in tens.
(48 55
33

60
50
20 30 40

nearest ten, look a

33is between 30 and 40, When rounding a number to the
but closer to 30. the ones digit.
So, 33 rounds to 30. If the ones
48 is between 40 and 50, digit is 4 If the ones
or less, digit is 5
but closer to 50. round to
So, 48 rounds to 50. or more,
the smaller round to
ten.
55 is exactly midway the bigger
between 50 and 60. ten.

So, 55 rounds to 60.

Here is another way to look at it.
This folded number line looks like mountain peaks and valleys. The peaks show the
number that is halfway betweern the tens (or the valleys).
5 15 25 35 45

10 20 30 40 50
A ballon 13 will rollto 10. 13 is rounded to 10.
Aball on 36 will roll to 40. 36 is rounded to 40.
Challenge!
Try This! If 50 is the rounded number
Round to the nearest 10. of people, what is thegreatest
a. 72 b. 65 number of people that could
C. 53 have volunteered? What is the
d. 47
smallest number?

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ExerciseIF
with tens.
1. Fill in the blanks and
a. 72 is between
and
b. 59 is between
between and
C. 38 is
nearest 10.
2. Round to the b. 79 C. 91
a. 55 f. 62
e. 17
d. 35 h. 44 i. 26
g. 83
answer in the form ofa sentence.
3. Solve. Give
your
his birthday to all the 43 children inhis class
distribute sweets for while buying the sweets?
a Rohit wants to the smaller or bigger ten
to
Should he round the number birthday party. Birthday hats come in packets of
invited for Rohit's
b. 26children were should Rohit buy?
ten. How many packets
which numbers can you place the ball so
Lookat the folded number line on page 20. At
4.
to 30?
that it always rolls fifties which will round to 60.
numbers in their
5. a. Write 5
their eighties which will round to 80.
in
b. Write 4 numbers

often
In real life, we
Come across facts
Data Connect
'Heartbeats and figures called
page 210 and study the data on
Open the Data Bank on answer the questions
below. data.
per Minute! Then
ofAnimals Data Connect helps
Rearrange the heartbeats in increasing order. youto understand
1. fastest heartbeat?.
2. Which animal has the and use such data.
slowest heartbeat?
3. Which animal has the elephant
is the number of heartbeats per minute ofan
4. What
rounded to the nearest ten?
per minute of a canary in
5. Give the number of heartbeats
word fornm.

minute of a hen in expanded

6. Write the number of heartbeats per
form.

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 ODD AND EVEN NUMBERS C-14
Numbers that can be put into pairs are even numbers.
Numbers that cannot be put into pairs are odd numbers.
9 10
1 8
2 3 4 5 6 7
All products (2,4,6, etc.)
are
Odd Even in the tWo times
table
even numbers.
1 2 12
11
4 14
13
6
16
5 15 *.*****

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7 17
10 20
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What do you notice?

and 0in the ones place are even numbers.
have 2, 4.6. 8.
Althe numbers that Did you notice?
72,346, 7908 are alleven numbers.
5, 7, and 9 in the * The word ODD has 3 letters!
Allthe numbers that have 1, 3, The word EVEN has 4 letters!
ones place are odd numbers. *
31,427, 6029 are all odd numbers.
Try This!
projects.
1. 40 students were given two with odd-numbered roll
numbers.
Group A: SAVE TREES - Students
numbers.
with even-numbered roll
Group B: SAVE WATER - Students
in the two groups.
Write down the roll numbers of the students and with even numbers in blue.
in yellow
2. Colour the boxes with odd numbers 4011
650 493 85 88 333 710
567 3992 1001

Play a Game PA'

Two sets of slips with digits from 0 to 9 are mixed and kept in a bowl. Two
students pick 3 slips each and build allthe possible even numbers that
can be built using all those digits.
If the digits 7, 2, 0 are picked, the numbers 720, 270, 702 can be built. 720
(Zero at the beginning is not allowed.)
One point is earned for every number built. 702
The next round can be played with odd numbers. Students can compare 2 70
points at the end of six rounds.

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iLook at the coloured squares showing odd andeven numbers. How would you describe the
difference between the two?

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ORDINALS
Protecting our earth also means protecting allthe animals on it. Many animal species
are indanger of not surviving at all. Such animals are called endangered animals.
these animals. Match the display positions of the
Students of Class 3 made posters of
given.
posters to the ordinal names

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th

zth gth
gth 10th

second ninth fifth eighth first fourth sixth

third seventh tenth

Fillin the last column.

21st twenty-first 31st
11th eleventh
twenty-second 32nd
twelfth 22nd
12th
33rd
thirteenth 23rd twenty-third
13th
24th twenty-fourth 34th
14th fourteenth
25th twenty-fifth 35th
15th fifteenth
twenty-sixth 36th
16th sixteenth 26th
twenty-seventh 37th
17th seventeenth 27th
38th
18th eighteenth 28th twenty-eighth
29th twenty-ninth 39th
19th nineteenth
40th fortieth
20th twentieth 30th thirtieth

Try This!
Write your birthday using ordinals.

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 ROMAN NUMERALS
Have you seen numbers like these on clocks or watches? X
You may have even seen them in books or on buildings.
They are Roman numerals. Longago the people of Rome had
a number system that used letters to stand for numbers.
Each letter had a value.
| for 1 Vfor 5 X for 10

They used these three letters to build other numbers.

lafter a Vor an Xmeant that it had to be added.
Tbefore a Vor an X meant that it had to be subtracted.
No letter could be repeated more than thrice.
1. Complete the following table.
VIll IX X XI XII
IV VI VIl

10- 1
1 1+1 5-1 5+1

6 9
2 4

2. Read the time on these clocks.

b. C. d.
a.

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3. Colour the flower. Use the colour code.
You may keep a
a. 1- Brown separate notebook as |X
your Maths Journal. X VIII
b. 2,5,and 8 -Pink You can use it to
C. 3, 6, and 9 - Red VII
express thoughts, ideas,
d. 4,7, and 10- Purple and experiences about
the different things
Journal FA you have learnt in the
maths class.
List at least two ways in
which Roman numerals are different
from our number system today.

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PROBLEM SOLVING
Building Skills
make sense?
Does your answer School BUs
problem, it is also
When you check your answer in aanswer makes sense.
importantto check whether the
answer.
Circle the most sensible
sister goes to school. How old is she?
1. Pradeep's younger C. 50 years
a. 1year b. 8 years

2. Aman had 50. He bought a storybook.

Howmuch money is left with him?
a. 50 b. 75 C. 20

Shirin practises playing the Veena every day.

3. she practise every
week?
How many hours does C. 100 hours
b. 10hours
a. 1hour

Jimmy read abook in two days. Howmany pages are

4.
there in the book?
b. 1,000 pages C. 35 pages
a. 5 pages

friend Sonam has many more.

5. Soniahas 385 stamps. Her
Sonam have?
How many stamps does c. 454 stamps
a. 359 stamps b. 386 stamps
at the beginning
6. Harman buys pencls for the whole yearbuy?
of the year. How many pencils does he C. 4 pencils
a. 300 pencils b. 25 pencils

Challenge!
These are pictures of
the people in Tarini's
family, starting from
the oldest person
going to the youngest.
Match them to their
2016 1990 1985 1960
year of birth.

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 SELF
Colour the circle that describes best how you feel,
Chapter Igot this! I'm getting
there!
Ineed
help!

1. Check-Up
Fillin the correct order of numbers.
a. 3,702 3,707
Vocabulary Review
8,100 8,101
Expanded form
b. 8,098 Greater than
i
2. Fillin the boxes. i Less than
b.
a.
73 1 8 i Ascending order
i Descending order
i Digit
i" Even number
40
i" Odd number
400 " Numeral
iMidway point
9000 Dtg ie Rounding
Ordinals
3. Use all the given digits to build the greatest and the i" Place value
smallest numbers.
i. Thousands
Digits Greatest number Smallest number i " Roman Numeral
9, 5, 0
3,9, 6, 1
4. Write 5987, 5798,and 5978 in ascending order and in descending order.
Ascending Order
Descending Order
5. Write using ordinals.
a. India's Republic Day
b. India's Independence Day
6. Write the class you are in using Roman numerals. Then write the senior-most class in
your school using Roman numerals.
7. Pencils come in packets of 20.Crayons come in packets of 25. Which of the two objects
comes packed in an odd number?
8. Tick ( )the correct answer.
If Sareeka needed 75 beads to makea necklace, how many c. 50
beads should she buy, rounded to the nearest ten? a. 70 b. 80

I> Colour thegreen circle if you understand and are ready to move ahead.
!> Colourthe yellow circle ifyou understand but still need a little practice.i
I> Colour the red circle if youdon't understand and need help.

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