Happy Maths Shapes and Data Written by Mala Kumar Illustrated by Angie & Upesh Original Story (English) Happy Maths - 2 Shapes and Data by Mala Kumar ©Pratham Books, 2007 First Edition 2007 This series is sponsored by Illustrations: Angie & Upesh Pals for Life ISBN 978-81-8263-907-2 Registered Office: PRATHAM BOOKS No.633/634, 4th “C” Main, 6th ‘B’ Cross, OMBR Layout, Banaswadi, Bangalore- 560043. & 080 - 25429726 / 27 / 28 Regional Offices: Mumbai & 022 - 65162526 New Delhi & 011 - 65684113 Typsetting and Layout by: The Other Design Studio Printed by: xxxxxxxxxxxxx Published by: Pratham Books www.prathambooks.org All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Happy Maths - 2 Shapes and Data Written by Mala Kumar Illustrated by Angie & Upesh Sankhya and Ganith have been learning a lot of things in their mathematics class. Join Sankhya and Ganith in their happy discoveries about mathematics. Zzero and Eka are friends of Sankhya and Ganith. In this book, Sankhya and Ganith learn that different shapes have different properties. They also try to understand how to make sense of all the information that they gather. 2 Sankhya likes to skip. The last time her brother Ganith counted, she skipped a hundred and ten times in five minutes! Ganith tried it too. He skipped thirty times… tripped and fell down. It’s fun to count sometimes. Numbers are just one part of mathematics. This book tells you how you can play with mathematics. You see it can be fun almost all the time. 3 The Funny Cricket Ground Hello, my name is Zzero. And this is my friend, Eka. That makes two of us. With you for company, we will be three. And if you get all your friends to join us…. why we can be a cricket team, or a hockey team or even the entire stadium of football fans, or…. That reminds me, I have to be at the cricket match bet