NCERT solutions for Math - Magic [English] Class 2 chapter 13 - The Longest Step [Latest edition]

They started the game.

Surprisingly, in the end, the elephant won.

• Can you tell why the elephant won?
• Who takes the biggest step?
• Act out this story.

Make a group of 3-4 friends. Find out by drawing lines whose step is the longest.

Find the distance between

1. the door and any window of your class.
2. the blackboard and where you are sitting.

Rajat wants to find out the length of a few things using his handspan. These are shown in the picture.

• Can he use a handspan to find the length of all these?
• Which things around you are less than your handspan? Name them.
• What would you use to find the length of those things?

Make a mud house. See whose mud house is higher. You can use your fingers to find how high your mud house is.

• Who made the highest mud house?
• Whose mud house is the smallest?

See these two coconut trees. If the bigger tree is 6 metres high, how high is the smaller tree?

Guess the length or height of the things shown below. Find the length to check your answer.

Name of the thing	My guess	My result
Glass	______fingers	______fingers
Bucket	______handspans	______handspans
Your hand	______matchsticks	______matchsticks
Teacher's table	______math textbook	______math textbook
Your nose	______fingers	______fingers
Water bottle	______fingers	______fingers
Your hair	______handspans	______handspans

1. Use your fingers to find out the distance between the rat and the milk. ______ fingers
2. How far is the cat from the rat? ______ fingers
3. How far is the cat from the milk? ______ fingers
4. What will the cat reach first - the rat or the milk?
5. Can the rat save itself? How?
6. Tell a story using this picture.
7. How long is the rat's tail? ______ fingers
8. Who has longer whiskers? The rat or the cat?

1. Draw a leaf 2 fingers away from the stone.
2. Draw a banana 5 matchsticks away from the monkey.
3. Draw a kite 7 fingers away from the stone.
4. Draw a cloud 3 matchsticks away from the kite.
5. Draw a bird 4 fingers away from the banana.

Draw yourself anywhere on the page. Find how far you are from the monkey's nose.

Sanju and her friends were trying to find out the length of their different body parts. Here is what they found out -

1. Do you agree with what they said?
2. Check how many of your friends have -
   1) a face one handspan long ______
   2) the arm as long as the leg ______
   3) a forehead 4 fingers wide ______
3. You can try and measure other body parts with your fingers and write their length.
   1) Your nose is ______ fingers long.
   2) Your ear is ______ fingers long.