MATHEMATICS – Grade X
(From Syllabus Book)
INTERNAL ASSESSMENT - A minimum of two assignments are to be done during the year as
prescribed by the teacher.
Suggested Assignments
1) Comparative newspaper coverage of different items.
2) Survey of various types of Bank accounts, rates of interest offered.
3) Planning a home budget.
4) Conduct a survey in your locality to study the mode of conveyance / Price of various essential
commodities / favourite sports. Represent the data using a bar graph / histogram and estimate the mode.
5) To use a newspaper to study and report on shares and dividends.
6) Set up a dropper with ink in it vertical at a height say 20 cm above a horizontally placed sheet of plain
paper. Release one ink drop; observe the pattern, if any, on the paper. Vary the vertical distance and
repeat. Discover any pattern of relationship between the vertical height and the ink drop observed.
7) You are provided (or you construct a model as shown) - three vertical sticks (size of a pencil) stuck to
a horizontal board. You should also have discs of varying sizes with holes (like a doughnut). Start with
one disc; place it on (in) stick A. Transfer it to another stick (B or C); this is one move (m). Now try
with two discs placed in A such that the large disc is below, and the smaller disc is above (number of
discs = n=2 now). Now transfer them one at a time in B or C to obtain similar situation (larger disc
below). How many moves? Try with more discs (n = 1, 2, 3, etc.) and generalise.
8) The board has some holes to hold marbles, red on one side and blue on the other. Start with one pair.
Interchange the positions by making one move at a time. A marble can jump over another to fill the hole
behind. The move (m) equal 3. Try with 2 (n=2) and more. Find the relationship between n and m.
9) Take a square sheet of paper of side 10 cm. Four small squares are to be cut from the corners of the
square sheet and then the paper folded at the cuts to form an open box. What should be the size of the
squares cut so that the volume of the open box is maximum?
10) Take an open box, four sets of marbles (ensuring that marbles in each set are of the same size) and
some water. By placing the marbles and water in the box, attempt to answer the question: do larger
marbles or smaller marbles occupy more volume in a given space?
11) An eccentric artist says that the best paintings have the same area as their perimeter (numerically).
Let us not argue whether such sizes increase the viewer’s appreciation, but only try and find what sides
(in integers only) a rectangle must have if its area and perimeter are to be equal (Note: there are only two
such rectangles).
12) Find by construction the centre of a circle, using only a 60-30 setsquare and a pencil.
13) Various types of “Cryptarithm”.
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Guidelines for Grade X Mathematics Project
General Instructions:
Project 1: (Summer Vacations) On any ONE of the following topics:
1) Statistics – Conduct a survey (at least 30 respondents from various age groups) in your locality to
study mode of conveyance/ Choice of car, colour etc/ Favourite food/ Favourite sports. Represent the
data using a bar graph / histogram and estimate the mode. Check for relationship between age &
conditions given.
2) To use a newspaper to study and report on shares and dividends – Take 2 popular companies and
track their share price movement for a month. Reasons for fluctuations. Suggest which one will be the
better investment. Represent the movement of share prices in the form of graph – can paste cuttings
from the newspaper.
3) Planning a home budget – Comparative study of Lower income, Middle income, High income
group. Or at least two listed groups. Check the relationship in earnings, expenditure, saving. Represent
the data in graph.
4) Set up a dropper with ink in it vertical at a height say 20 cm above a horizontally placed sheet of plain
paper. Release one ink drop; observe the pattern, if any, on the paper. Vary the vertical distance and
repeat. Discover any pattern of relationship between the vertical height and the ink drop observed.
5) Probability – Throw a die and note the outcome. Repeat for 100 throws. Represent in the form of
graph. Do the experiment for coin(s), dice.
6) Various types of “Cryptarithm”
7) Study of various types of Bank accounts, rates of interest offered.
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