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If Vinoba’s mother followed Vinoba’s suggestion, how many days would it take for her to finish the offering?
100 days. 10, 000 divided by 100 = 100 days.
Sankhya’s mother was getting ready to go
to school. She was a geography teacher.“Sankkima, eat your breakfast quickly!”
she shouted.
“Ki-ki, have you finished your
homework?” askedSankhya’s father.
“S V!” yelled Sankhya’s friend Manjula
from the street. Sankhya’s father’s nameis Venkat.
“I have a million names!”
said Sankhya with a grin, as she got ready to eather breakfast.
Sankhya answers to all the different names
she is called by.Numbers too are like Sankhya.
They have different names in differentcountries.
But the word lakh is not used in European and American countries. When someone wins a One-lakh lottery, people in these countries would say, “I won hundred thousand!”
1,000 x 1,000 = 1,000,000. Thousand 1,000s make a
million .
In India, we say 10 lakhs instead of one million.
100 x 100,000 = 10,000,000.
One hundred lakhs is called one
crore in India.
1,000 x 1,000,000 = 1,000,000,000.
In America, 1,000 millions are called a
billion .
1,000 x 1,000 x 1,000,000 = 1,000,000,000,000.
And a billion is a thousand thousand million in all countries exceptthe United States of America.
Surprisingly, scientists, whether in India or America mean
1,000 million when they say billion.
When someone asks you how
far your school is from yourhouse you may say, “Very far.”
To a stranger asking for directions
to the school, you would probablysay, “Five kilometres, Sir.”
The Sun is 300,000 times heavier
than the Earth. To write the massof the Sun in tonnes you need to
write 2 followed by 27 zeroes.
Numbers help us to understand the world
around us better.
Scientists say the universe was formed
because of a ‘Big Bang’.
15 billion years ago there was a small
super hot, super dense, ball offire.
The ball was less than 1cm
wide. Suddenly, the ball exploded.
The ball was less than 1cm
wide. Suddenly, the ball exploded.
In less then a millionth
of a second, it grew to ahuge ball, 16 billion km
across.
In the next million years, the exploded pieces
became colder and formed galaxies.
The Earth, Moon and Sun belong to a
galaxy called the Milky Way.
They were born less than 5 billion years ago.
There are 200
billion stars in ourgalaxy.
Our Sun is one of them. Earth is one
of the nine planets movingaround our Sun
And the Earth has
6,525,170,264 people.
You are one of 1,095,351,995 people
living in India!
The Principal of Aryanagar Vidyamandir is
very strict. He insists that students standin their specified places during morning
assembly.
Ranjit, a class 4 student, always stood in
the fourth row fromthe right side of the
hall.
One day, he got into the sixth row, where all the Class 6 students stood. He felt veryimportant. He also felt very scared that the principal would seek him out and punishhim.
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