MATHEMATICS – Grade X

(Project Guidelines for 2023-2024)

INTERNAL ASSESSMENT - A minimum of two assignments are to be done during the year as
prescribed by the teacher.
Suggested Assignments

1) Comparative newspaper coverage of different items.

(Importance of newspaper, Different items covered by newspaper, comparative study of
different items: Represent the data of different news in graphs as percentage)

2) Survey of various types of Bank accounts, rates of interest offered

Explain the uses of bank, collect information about any three bank accounts. The rate of interest offered
for these accounts. Explain in detail about Recurring Deposit account. Derive the formula for calculating
interest and maturity value of recurring deposit account. Stick pictures related to the topic.

Do a comparison study with Rs 500 invested in RD of 10% for 2 years or RD of Rs 1000 invested in
RD of 5% for same time period is profitable. Or different scenarios.

Difference between Fixed Deposit & RD, why or which is better?

3) Planning a home budget

Comparative study of Lower income, Middle-income, High-income group. Or at least two listed
groups. Check the relationship in earnings, expenditure, saving. Represent the data on graph. (Pie chart,
Bar graph, Histogram) Can stick original bills.

4) Statistics: Conduct a survey in your locality to study the mode of conveyance / Price of various
essential commodities / favourite sports. Represent the data using a bar graph / histogram and estimate
the mode.
Conduct a survey (at least 50 – 80 respondents from various age groups) in your locality to study
mode of conveyance/ Choice of car, colour etc/ Favourite food/ Favourite sports. Represent the data
using a bar graph / histogram and estimate the mode. Check for relationship between age & conditions
given. Stick the survey form.

5) To use a newspaper to study and report on shares and dividends.

Take 2 popular companies and track their share price movement for a month. Reasons for
fluctuations. Suggest which one will be the better investment. Represent the movement of share
prices in the form of graph – can paste cuttings from the newspaper.
6) Set up a dropper with ink in it vertical at a height say 20 cm above a horizontally placed sheet of plain
paper. Release one ink drop; observe the pattern, if any, on the paper. Vary the vertical distance and
repeat. Discover any pattern of relationship between the vertical height and the ink drop observed.

7) You are provided (or you construct a model as shown) - three vertical sticks (size of a pencil) stuck to a
horizontal board. You should also have discs of varying sizes with holes (like a doughnut). Start with
one disc; place it on (in) stick A. Transfer it to another stick (B or C); this is one move (m). Now try
with two discs placed in A such that the large disc is below, and the smaller disc is above (number of
discs = n=2 now). Now transfer them one at a time in B or C to obtain similar situation (larger disc
below). How many moves? Try with more discs (n = 1, 2, 3, etc.) and generalize.

8) The board has some holes to hold marbles, red on one side and blue on the other. Start with one pair.
Interchange the positions by making one move at a time. A marble can jump over another to fill the
hole behind. The move (m) equal 3. Try with 2 (n=2) and more. Find the relationship between n and m.

9) Take a square sheet of paper of side 10 cm. Four small squares are to be cut from the corners of the
square sheet and then the paper folded at the cuts to form an open box. What should be the size of the
squares cut so that the volume of the open box is maximum?

10) Take an open box, four sets of marbles (ensuring that marbles in each set are of the same size) and
some water. By placing the marbles and water in the box, attempt to answer the question: do larger
marbles or smaller marbles occupy more volume in a given space?

11) An eccentric artist says that the best paintings have the same area as their perimeter (numerically).
Let us not argue whether such sizes increase the viewer’s appreciation, but only try and find what
sides (in integers only) a rectangle must have if its area and perimeter are to be equal (Note: there are
only two such rectangles).

12) Find by construction the centre of a circle, using only a 60-30 setsquare and a pencil.

13) Various types of “Cryptarithm”.

14) Use flat cut outs of cylinder, cone and square based pyramid to derive the formula of volume and
total surface area of each.

15) Probability – Definition, terms related to probability, uses of probability in daily life (at least three
examples).
(i) Throw a coin 25 times and note the outcomes and represent the outcomes on a graph
sheet.
(ii) Roll a die 25 times and note the outcomes and represent the outcomes on a graph sheet.
 Advised Projects are given in Bold.

Guidelines for Grade X Mathematics Project

1) Project to be hand-written in black ink.

2) A4 blank sheets with border to be used. (No ruled sheets)

3) All written material on the right side of the page and all graphs, pictures on the left side of the page.

4) Total Project should be about 15 - 20 pages.

5) Cover page

Should be printed and then the details should be filled.

6) Acknowledgment: Do not mention the name of the teacher.

7) Index: Should in table format

INDEX
Sl no Topic Page no.

8) Objective: State the project. (Page 1) – (Page numbering should start from here)

9) Problem Description: Describe in detail the objective. (Page 2)

10) Introduction: Introduce the topic with historical/ theoretical background. (Page 3)
 11) Project: Describe in detail the project with all the required mathematical calculations. Statistical tables
(If any) (Page 4-12)

12) Observation: What did you observe? (Page 13)

13) Conclusion: What did you learn from the project? (Page 14)

14) Further Study: What more can be done in the project. Only list 2-3 points. (Page 15)

15) Bibliography: List the source of your information – Books, web sites etc. (Page 16)
(Do not list Wikipedia as source and do not mention text book)

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Internal Examiner External Examiner

16) Date of submission: Project 1 & 2: 25th / 26th May 2023

Keep 3-4 extra sheets in each project & spiral bound before submission.

Note: 1) Project 1 should be theoretical topic

2) Project 2 should be practical topic

3) Criterion for Evaluation: Preparation, Concepts, Computation, Presentation, Understanding

(Each 2 Mark)
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