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Class 8

Mathematics: Ganita Prakash Part 2

56 lessons in 7 chapters, explained in plain words.

Fractions in Disguise

  1. Per cent means out of a hundred
  2. Why a hundred
  3. Finding a percentage of a quantity
  4. The FDP trio
  5. Percentages greater than 100
  6. Comparing, increasing and decreasing
  7. Profit, loss and discount
  8. Interest and compounding
  9. Tricky percentages

The Baudhayana-Pythagoras Theorem

  1. Doubling a square
  2. Halving a square
  3. The hypotenuse and √2
  4. √2 is not a fraction
  5. The isosceles formula
  6. Combining two different squares
  7. Baudhāyana triples
  8. Fermat's margin, and a lotus in a lake

Proportional Reasoning-2

  1. A recap, and ratios on a map
  2. Ratios with more than two terms
  3. Dividing a whole in a ratio
  4. A slice of the pie
  5. Inverse proportion
  6. Working together

Exploring Some Geometric Themes

  1. Fractals
  2. The gasket and the snowflake
  3. Fractals in art
  4. Visualising solids
  5. Faces, edges and vertices
  6. Nets
  7. The ant and the laddu
  8. Projections

Tales by Dots and Lines

  1. The balancing act
  2. Shifting and stretching the data
  3. Tinkering with the median, and finding the unknown
  4. Mean and median with frequencies
  5. Spreadsheets
  6. Line graphs
  7. Rainfall, infographics and strips
  8. A data story

Algebra Play

  1. Think of a number
  2. Guessing the date
  3. Number pyramids
  4. The pyramid's formula
  5. Fun with grids
  6. The largest product
  7. Decoding divisibility tricks
  8. Puzzles worth an equation

Area

  1. Rectangles, squares, and why perimeter is not area
  2. Area of a triangle
  3. Using the area formula backwards
  4. Triangles between parallel lines
  5. The area of any polygon
  6. Area of a parallelogram
  7. Area of a rhombus
  8. Area of a trapezium
  9. Areas in real life