Kisan Ki Hoshiyari (किसान की होशियारी) is a witty folktale about a farmer who outsmarts a greedy bear three times by knowing which parts of different crops grow above and below the soil. When the bear demands the top part of the crop, the farmer grows potatoes (आलू); when the bear demands the bottom part, … Read more
What’s in a Name? opens with the story of Deba and Deep in Tarakeshwar, who kept track of their grazing cows before they knew how to count by making one mark on the wall for every cow leaving the gate and striking out a mark as each cow returned. Students apply this one-to-one matching idea … Read more
Toy Joy introduces three-dimensional shapes—cubes, cuboids, cones, cylinders and spheres—through craft work with old boxes, cans and paper rockets built by Jaya and her friends. Children count each 3D shape in toy models, describe positions using spatial words (on top of, under, between), and explore faces, corners and edges of solid shapes by building towers … Read more
Fun with Shapes begins with Amma’s dot rangoli and opened-up cardboard boxes, showing how flat 2D faces—rectangles, squares, triangles and circles—form the surfaces of 3D objects. Students explore straight and curved lines, fold paper to test square corners (right angles), compare opposite sides of rectangles and squares, and build creative figures using tangrams and dot … Read more
House of Hundreds – I takes Ajji, Teji and Jojo to a village mela where they count triangular torans, bangles and toffees beyond 200, extending 3-digit numbers up to 500. Children build numbers using hundred-flats, ten-strips and unit blocks, locate 3-digit numbers on long number lines, and compare numbers using place value and the < ... Read more