Class 1 Maths Chapter 6, Vegetable Farm (Addition and Subtraction up to 20), visits Shamim’s grandmother’s vegetable garden — where children harvest pumpkins, brinjals, corns, and tomatoes to practise adding and subtracting numbers up to 20 by making a group of 10 first.
What Class 1 Mathematics Chapter 6 Covers
Adding Beyond 10 by Making a Ten: Combining two baskets of vegetables (like 8 tomatoes and 5 tomatoes) by filling a 10-frame first (10 + 3 = 13).
Ginladi & Number Strip Jumps up to 20: Using the 20-bead ginladi to add and subtract numbers between 10 and 20.
Farm Word Problems: Solving story problems on plucked lemons, blooming flowers, and earthen pots made by a potter.
Rumi and Shami’s baskets: the chapter starts on a vegetable farm where Rumi and Shami pick vegetables: 7 tomatoes and 5 tomatoes make 12, 9 carrots and 4 carrots, 8 radishes and 8 radishes. Children add 12 and 4 on the ginladi (bead counter) by counting on 13, 14, 15, 16, and Sapna’s 12 pencils plus Gauri’s 6 make 18. The project is to plant a vegetable sapling and look after it.
Exercises in Chapter 6
- Let us Do — Make 10 and Add (Pages 65–68): Circle 10 objects first to find totals up to 20.
- Subtraction & Story Sums up to 20 (Pages 69–72): Solve subtraction tasks and vegetable-farm word problems.
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FAQ
How does ‘Making 10’ help add 8 + 5 in Chapter 6?
Take 2 from 5 and add it to 8 to make 10; then 10 and the remaining 3 easily make 13.
What numbers are used for addition and subtraction in Chapter 6 Vegetable Farm?
Numbers from 1 up to 20.
How do children add 12 and 4 on a ginladi?
Count 12 beads first, then count on 4 more: 13, 14, 15, 16.