Building with Brick Solutions
NCERT book Page No: 2
Question: 1
Which floor pattern do you like the most?
Answer:
Pattern 5 looks familiar, so I like pattern 5.
Question: 2
Have you seen such patterns anywhere?
Answer:
Yes, I have seen this type of pattern in mosques.
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Question: 3
Which pattern is made in a circle?
Answer:
Pattern J is made in a circle
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Question: 4
How to draw a brick?
Answer:
Drawing a brick is shown below
Question: 5
How many faces in all does a brick have?
Answer:
There are six faces in a brick.
Question: 6
Is any face of a brick a square?
Answer:
No, a face of a brick has no square face.
Question: 7
Draw the smallest face of the brick.
Answer:
The smallest face of the brick is being drawn below
Question: 8
Which of these are the faces of a brick? Mark a (Right)
Answer:
Question: 9
Which of these is a drawing of a brick? Mark a (Right)
Question: 10
Make a drawing of this box to show 3 of its faces.
Answer:
Drawing of this box to show 3 of its faces is shown below
Question: 11
Can you make a drawing of a brick which shows 4 of its faces?
Answer:
No, we cannot draw a brick which shows 4 of its faces.
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Question: 12
What do you think? Which wall will be stronger?
Answer:
The wall made by Zainab will be stronger than Muniya
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Looking through a Brick ‘jaali’
The masons who built Jagriti School had also made different ‘jaali’ patterns on the walls.
Question: 13
How many different ‘jaali’ patterns can you see in these two photos?
Answer:
There are five jaali patterns in the given two photos
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Question: 14
Have you seen arches in a bridge?
Answer:
Yes, have seen arches in a bridge
Question: 15
Where else have you seen an arch?
Answer:
I saw arches in old bridges. In Jaunpur, one of such bridges is situated on the river Saryu.
Question: 16
Isn’t the ‘jaali’ of this window beautiful? It is made of thin bricks. Have you ever seen thin bricks? Look around
Answer:
The ‘jaali’ of the window is very beautiful. Yes, I have seen thin bricks. These thin bricks are used in Red Fort situated in Delhi.
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Question: 17
Which of these bricks have curved edges?
Answer:
The bricks 1 and 2 from top left have curved edges in the given figure
Question: 18
How many faces do you see of the longest brick?
Answer:
Only one face of the longest brick can be seen in the given figure
Question: 19
Is there any brick which has more than six faces?
Answer:
No, there is no bricks with more than six faces in the given figure.
Question: 20
Have you seen bricks of different sizes?
Take one brick and measure it.
(a) How long is it?
Answer:
It is 10 inches in length
(b) How wide it is?
Answer:
It is 4 and half inches wide
(c) How high is it?
Answer:
It is 3 inches in height
Question: 21
Muniya wants to make a wall 1 metre long. How many bricks will she need to put in a line?
Answer:
She needs 4 bricks to make a wall 1 metre long
Question: 22
Can you guess how high is the chimney here? Is it:
(a) about 5 metres?
(b) about 15 metres?
(c) about 50 metres?
Answer:
The chimney is about 50 metres high in the given figure
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Question: 23
Here are four pictures from the brick kiln. These pictures are jumbled up. Look at them carefully. Write the correct order
Answer:
The correct order of the given figure is C, D, B and A i.e
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Question: 24
Have you seen a brick kiln? Did you try to guess the number of bricks kept there?
Answer: Yes, I saw a brick kiln. There may be more than one lakh bricks kept in brick kiln.
Question: 25
Can you write the number one lakh?
Answer:
One lakh is written as 100000
Question: 26
Look at these photos and guess how many bricks are carried by this truck.
Also find out from a truck driver how many bricks they can carry in one truck.
Answer:
According to truck driver, he can carry 4000 bricks in a truck.
Bhajan went to buy bricks. The price was given for one thousand bricks. The prices were also different for different types of bricks.
Old bricks – Rs 1200 for one thousand bricks
New bricks from Intapur – Rs 1800 for one thousand bricks
New bricks from Brickabad – Rs 1200 for one thousand bricks
Question: 27
Bhajan decided to buy the new bricks from Brickabad. He bought three thousand bricks. How much did he pay?
Answer:
Bhajan has to pay Rs 3600 for three thousand bricks
Question: 28
Guess what he will pay if he buys 500 old bricks
Answer:
Bhajan pays Rs 600, if he buys 500 old bricks