NCERT Class 6 Ganita Prakash Book: Chapters and PDFs

The NCERT Class 6 Ganita Prakash book is the official Class 6 Mathematics textbook, and this page brings together all 10 chapters with their official NCERT PDFs. The files are NCERT’s own — free, and hosted on ncert.nic.in.

The PDF alone does not tell you what each chapter contains. This page adds what we measured from the book itself: each chapter’s named sections, its topics with page numbers where available, its question count and its page length, so you can find the right chapter before you open the file.

Download the official NCERT chapter PDFs

Every file in the table above is NCERT’s own PDF, hosted free on ncert.nic.in. Chapter 1 (Patterns in Mathematics), for instance, is fegp101.pdf on ncert.nic.in — the official file, not a re-upload.

Each chapter ships as its own PDF, so you can download one chapter instead of the whole 392-page book. The other nine chapters follow the same official pattern, fegp102 through fegp110.

NCERT Maths Class 6 textbook PDF (free download): the book, measured

• 10 chapters, each with its own verified official PDF linked above.
• 392 printed pages across the whole book.
• 65 named sections — NCERT’s own numbered headings, counted from the book.
• Chapter study pages below show which chapters already have a detailed page on this site.

The ten chapters fall into six thematic groups. The table groups them by what they build toward, which is analysis the PDF itself does not offer.

A first pass of the whole book is quick: the shortest chapter runs just 17 pages and the longest 56.

What’s inside each chapter: sections, topics and questions

What the columns count: a section is one of NCERT’s own numbered headings, and a question is a question captured from the chapter.

In this book, all 299 questions sit inside the chapters as you read, rather than in a separate exercise section at the end of each chapter.

The figure column is not published for this book: the edition prints its diagrams without numbered captions, so there is no figure index to inspect.

Chapter 1: Patterns in Mathematics

Mathematics is the search for patterns and the explanations behind why those patterns exist, and number sequences are the most basic pattern of all. Every student should read this chapter first — it is the book’s orientation piece.

1. 1.1 What is Mathematics? (p. 1)
2. 1.2 Patterns in Numbers (p. 2)
3. 1.3 Visualising Number Sequences (p. 3)
4. 1.4 Relations among Number Sequences (p. 6)
5. 1.5 Patterns in Shapes (p. 9)
6. 1.6 Relation to Number Sequences (p. 11)

With 6 sections and 25 questions across just 17 pages, it is the shortest chapter in the book and the fastest way in.

Chapter 2: Lines and Angles

A point fixes a location, a line segment is the shortest distance between two points, and from rays and angles the chapter builds up to measuring and drawing angles with a protractor. It is the foundation chapter for anyone meeting geometry formally for the first time.

1. 2.1 Point (p. 13)
2. 2.2 Line Segment (p. 14)
3. 2.3 Line (p. 14)
4. 2.4 Ray (p. 15)
5. 2.5 Angle (p. 17)
6. 2.6 Comparing Angles (p. 21)
7. 2.7 Making Rotating Arms (p. 25)
8. 2.8 Special Types of Angles (p. 27)
9. 2.9 Measuring Angles (p. 32)
10. 2.10 Drawing Angles (p. 46)
11. 2.11 Types of Angles and their Measures (p. 50)

With 11 sections and 43 questions across 53 pages, Chapter 2 carries the heaviest question load in the book — best done with paper and a protractor in hand.

Chapter 3: Number Play

Numbers are not only for counting — they carry information, reveal and make patterns, estimate sizes, pose puzzles and win games. It is a playful chapter, ideal for students who find numbers dry.

1. 3.1 Numbers can Tell us Things
2. 3.2 Supercells
3. 3.3 Patterns of Numbers on the Number Line
4. 3.4 Playing with Digits
5. 3.5 Pretty Palindromic Patterns
6. 3.6 The Magic Number of Kaprekar
7. 3.7 Clock and Calendar Numbers
8. 3.8 Mental Math
9. 3.9 Playing with Number Patterns
10. 3.10 An Unsolved Mystery—the Collatz Conjecture!
11. 3.11 Simple Estimation
12. 3.12 Games and Winning Strategies

With 12 named sections — the most of any chapter — and 29 questions across 32 pages, the chapter runs from Kaprekar’s magic number to the Collatz conjecture, a section the book itself titles an unsolved mystery.

Chapter 4: Data Handling and Presentation

Facts, numbers and observations that convey information are data. This chapter organises data with tally marks and presents it through pictographs and bar graphs — the most visual chapter in the book.

1. 4.1 Collecting and Organising Data (p. 74)
2. 4.2 Pictographs (p. 79)
3. 4.3 Bar Graphs (p. 85)
4. 4.4 Drawing a Bar Graph (p. 89)
5. 4.5 Artistic and Aesthetic Considerations (p. 101)

With 5 sections and 36 questions across 44 pages, this is the chapter where the book’s charts live.

Chapter 5: Common Multiples and Common Factors

A factor divides a number exactly — 4 is a factor of 12 — and from there the chapter moves to common factors and multiples, prime numbers, co-prime numbers, prime factorisation and divisibility tests. This is the toolkit behind fractions and later arithmetic.

1. 5.1 Common Multiples and Common Factors (p. 107)
2. 5.2 Prime Numbers (p. 112)
3. 5.3 Co-prime Numbers for Safekeeping Treasures (p. 115)
4. 5.4 Prime Factorisation (p. 117)
5. 5.5 Divisibility Tests (p. 122)
6. 5.6 Fun with Numbers (p. 126)

With 6 sections, 26 questions and 33 pages, it is a compact toolkit chapter that pays off in Chapters 7 and 10.

Chapter 6: Perimeter and Area

The perimeter of a polygon is the sum of the lengths of its sides, and a rectangle’s perimeter is twice its length plus its width. The chapter then measures the area — the space inside shapes — and ends with the area of a triangle.

1. 6.1 Perimeter (p. 129)
2. 6.2 Area (p. 137)
3. 6.3 Area of a Triangle (p. 142)

Only 3 named sections but 40 questions across 29 pages — the tightest question concentration in the book, so it rewards practice.

Chapter 7: Fractions

When a whole is divided into equal parts and shared fairly, a fraction results. Fractional units let us measure lengths that are not whole units, from halves and thirds up to mixed and equivalent fractions.

1. 7.1 Fractional Units and Equal Shares (p. 152)
2. 7.2 Fractional Units as Parts of a Whole (p. 154)
3. 7.3 Measuring Using Fractional Units (p. 156)
4. 7.4 Marking Fraction Lengths on the Number Line (p. 159)
5. 7.5 Mixed Fractions (p. 161)
6. 7.6 Equivalent Fractions (p. 163)
7. 7.7 Comparing Fractions (p. 173)
8. 7.8 Addition and Subtraction of Fractions (p. 175)
9. 7.9 A Pinch of History (p. 182)

With 9 sections and 36 questions across 50 pages, it is the book’s longest run on one arithmetic idea; the stretch from p. 163 to p. 173 gives Equivalent Fractions the longest single treatment of any topic in the chapter.

Chapter 8: Playing with Constructions

Every point of a circle sits at the same distance from its centre — that distance is the radius. A compass turns that idea into real constructions of squares, rectangles and circles.

1. 8.1 Artwork (p. 187)
2. 8.2 Squares and Rectangles (p. 192)
3. 8.3 Constructing Squares and Rectangles (p. 195)
4. 8.4 An Exploration in Rectangles (p. 197)
5. 8.5 Exploring Diagonals of Rectangles and Squares (p. 203)
6. 8.6 Points Equidistant from Two Given Points (p. 211)

With 6 sections across 38 pages but only 6 questions, this is a hands-on construction chapter — the learning lives in the doing, so work with the compass rather than just reading.

Chapter 9: Symmetry

A figure has symmetry when its parts repeat in a definite pattern. A line that cuts a plane figure into two exactly matching halves is a line of symmetry, and the chapter pairs it with rotational symmetry.

1. 9.1 Line of Symmetry (p. 219)
2. 9.2 Rotational Symmetry (p. 230)

Just 2 named sections and 16 questions, yet the chapter runs 40 pages — judge it by the seeing and folding, not the question count.

Chapter 10: The Other Side of Zero

Numbers smaller than zero are written with a minus sign, like \( -2 \), and they lie to the left of zero on the number line. Tokens and games make their behaviour concrete in the book’s closing chapter.

1. 10.1 Bela’s Building of Fun
2. 10.2 The Token Model
3. 10.3 Integers in Other Places
4. 10.4 Explorations with Integers
5. 10.5 A Pinch of History

At 56 pages and 42 questions, it is the longest chapter in the book and the second-heaviest question load after Chapter 2.

Chapter study pages for Class 6 Maths

The list below shows which chapters already have a dedicated study page on this site and which are still being built.

How to use the NCERT Class 6 Maths book PDF

1. Download one chapter at a time from the table above — all 10 chapters are separate official PDFs, so you can grab just the one you need.
2. Read Chapter 1 first as orientation; at 17 pages it is the quickest entry in the book.
3. Build number sense with Chapters 3 and 5 before heavier arithmetic — the number games in Chapter 3 and the factors-and-multiples toolkit in Chapter 5 make later work easier.
4. Do Chapter 7 Fractions before Chapter 10 — marking fraction lengths on the number line (section 7.4, p. 159) prepares the same line for the negative numbers of Chapter 10.
5. Pair the hands-on chapters: Chapter 8 constructions with a compass, then Chapter 9 symmetry (sections 9.1 and 9.2, pp. 219–230), since you build shapes first and then study their symmetry.
6. Use Chapter 10 last — it pulls together the number-line ideas first met in Chapters 1, 3 and 7.

Because all 299 questions sit inside the chapters, solve them as you read rather than saving practice for the end.

Textbook contents and the examinable syllabus are not always identical — check the current official syllabus for what is examinable.

Which Class 6 math book should you use?

• Check the cover: it should say Ganita Prakash and NCERT, with the official markings.
• The official PDF is free on ncert.nic.in — every link in the table above is NCERT’s own file.
• Match your school’s edition. If your school prescribes a different edition or a state-board book, follow what the school actually uses; the chapter set differs between editions.
• This page indexes the NCERT Class 6 Mathematics textbook; the Sources section below states the session it is maintained for.
• Syllabus check: a chapter in the textbook and a topic in the examinable syllabus are not automatically the same — confirm against the current official syllabus.

Related NCERT book pages

Keep browsing inside this site’s NCERT directory: start at the NCERT books index to see every class, or go straight to the Class 6 NCERT hub for the other subjects at this level.

The chapter study pages above are the next stop when you want a single chapter explained in detail.

Sources and data verification

This listing is maintained for the 2026-27 academic session using the NCERT textbook information available to us. NCERT remains the authority for confirming the latest edition.

• Where the data comes from: the NCERT Class 6 Mathematics (Ganita Prakash) editions on this page, with official PDFs on ncert.nic.in.
• What this page covers: chapter titles, named section headings, section-level page references where indexed, and question counts.
• The book’s diagrams are not numbered separately, so no figure index is included on this page. Section titles for Chapter 3 (Number Play) and Chapter 10 (The Other Side of Zero) are listed without page references.
• The academic session: this listing is maintained for the current academic session using the NCERT information available to us.
• Which authority settles what: NCERT settles textbooks, editions and PDFs; CBSE settles curriculum, syllabus and examinations. For a textbook edition, check NCERT, not CBSE.

Reference: NCERT Class 6 Mathematics (Ganita Prakash) textbook, official edition on ncert.nic.in. Section titles and page references are to the official PDF.

Frequently asked questions

How many chapters are in the NCERT Class 6 Ganita Prakash book?

Ten chapters. The book runs from Chapter 1 Patterns in Mathematics to Chapter 10 The Other Side of Zero, across 392 printed pages, and the download table above links each chapter’s own official PDF.

Is the NCERT Class 6 Maths book PDF free to download?

Yes. Each chapter PDF is NCERT’s own file, hosted free on ncert.nic.in, and the table above gives the official link for all 10 chapters. You do not need an account or payment.

Which chapter is Class 6 Maths Chapter 1 in Ganita Prakash?

Chapter 1 is Patterns in Mathematics. It opens on page 1, runs 17 pages, and its six sections introduce mathematics as the search for patterns, starting with number sequences.

Do chapters in the Ganita Prakash book end with an exercise section?

No. The 299 questions in this book sit inside the chapters as you read rather than in a blocked exercise at the end. Solve them as you go so practice does not pile up.

Where can I find answers for the questions in this book?

The ten chapters of Ganita Prakash contain 299 questions, and the chapter pages above show how many questions each chapter carries. These are the book’s own practice questions, so they offer a good starting point for checking your understanding as you study.