Mela Data Detective: Navratri Bar Chart, Patterns and Moon Maths
Children complete a bar chart of nine nights of visitors, find the total, the mean and the biggest increase, find and explain the rule for a growing pattern of dancers, compare a lunar year with a solar year, and add the dolls on nine Golu steps to discover a square number.
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Navratri Festival Quest Big Explorers Activity Pack: Maths, Puzzles, Stories & Science for Ages 7-11
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Curriculum
- Patterns > Patterns
How to use this worksheet
Start with section 1 and use a ruler to draw the missing bars. In sections 2 and 4, look for the rule before calculating. Write explanations in the lines. This is an Expert page.
Materials needed
- Pencil
- Ruler
Extension activities
- 1Keep a tally of something for nine days during Navratri and draw your own bar chart.
- 2Find out the total of the first 5, 6 and 7 odd numbers. What do you notice?
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Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
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