NCERT Class 7 Ganita Prakash Book: Chapters, PDFs, and What’s Inside

The NCERT Class 7 Ganita Prakash book is the official Class 7 mathematics textbook, and the chapter PDFs are on this page. It runs 8 chapters across 313 printed pages, from Large Numbers to Working with Fractions, and every official NCERT file is linked in the download table below.

What this page adds is what the PDF alone cannot show: a measured account of what is actually inside each chapter. The directory further down indexes 42 named sections, 6 activities and 192 questions across the eight chapters, with page ranges wherever the textbook’s own pages verify them.

Download the official NCERT Class 7 Ganita Prakash book PDFs

All eight files are NCERT’s own, hosted on ncert.nic.in, so the PDF you save is the current official textbook edition rather than a third-party copy. Chapter 1 (Large Numbers) opens at https://ncert.nic.in/textbook/pdf/gegp101.pdf, and the table below lists every chapter file in the same series.

What the Class 7 Maths textbook PDF contains

These are the numbers this page can verify from the NCERT textbook itself — they describe the Ganita Prakash edition, not the full CBSE Class 7 scheme.

• 8 chapters, from Large Numbers to Working with Fractions
• 313 printed pages across the eight official chapter PDFs
• 42 named sections — NCERT’s own numbered headings
• 6 activities, all inside Chapter 5
• 192 questions embedded in the chapter text
• 8 verified official PDFs, each linked in the download table above
• Chapter study pages: all eight chapters are under review, so the study-page table below reads “Not yet built” or “Drafting”

The book prints its diagrams without captions, so this index cannot count figures. The diagrams exist; the captions do not — a limitation of the edition itself, not of this site’s data.

What each chapter of Ganita Prakash teaches

The directory below shows what is inside each chapter: its named sections, activities and questions, with page references wherever the book’s own pages give them. In total, the Class 7 Ganita Prakash book has 42 named sections, 6 activities and 192 questions across its 8 chapters and 313 pages.

Column meanings: a section is one of NCERT’s own numbered headings, a figure is a numbered diagram indexed from the book, and a question is a prompt indexed from the chapter text. Because the book embeds its questions inside the sections and prints no closing exercise bank, the question column counts in-text prompts, not end-of-chapter exercises.

The one numbered figure in this textbook is “Circles intersecting each other at two points,” found in Chapter 7, “A Tale of Three Intersecting Lines,” on page 156.

Chapter 1: Large Numbers (38 pages)

Chapter 1 builds confidence with very large numbers. You learn to read and write them in the Indian system (lakhs, crores, arabs) and in the American/International system (millions, billions). The anchor fact is that 1 lakh is 1 followed by five zeroes.

1. 1.1 A Lakh Varieties!
2. 1.2 Land of Tens
3. 1.3 Of Crores and Crores!
4. 1.4 Exact and Approximate Values
5. 1.5 Patterns in Products
6. 1.6 Did You Ever Wonder…?

With 6 sections and only 12 questions, Chapter 1 carries the lightest question load in the book. It is a quick revision win, and its place-value ideas feed directly into the decimal work of Chapter 3.

Chapter 2: Arithmetic Expressions (40 pages)

Chapter 2 teaches order of operations through open number puzzles rather than drills. One standing task: use 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 exactly once each to build as many values between \( -10 \) and \( +10 \) as you can. Another: make an expression equal to 100 using the digits 0 to 9 exactly once.

1. 2.1 Simple Expressions
2. 2.2 Reading and Evaluating Complex Expressions

Worked example (ours, not from the book): \( 5 + 2 \times 8 – 4 = 5 + 16 – 4 = 17 \), because multiplication runs before addition and subtraction. The classic mistake is to work left to right, so \( 4 + 3 \times 2 \) becomes \( (4 + 3) \times 2 = 14 \) instead of \( 4 + 6 = 10 \).

Just 2 sections, but 27 questions carrying 102 question parts — the highest part count in the book, and one of the densest chapters per section.

Chapter 3: A Peek Beyond the Point (pp. 46–100)

Chapter 3 is the decimals chapter. It begins with the need to split a unit into smaller parts for more exact measurement, then extends the Indian place-value system: one unit equals ten one-tenths, one tenth equals ten one-hundredths, and the pattern continues into the decimal places.

1. 3.1 The Need for Smaller Units (p. 46)
2. 3.2 A Tenth Part (p. 48)
3. 3.3 A Hundredth Part (p. 52)
4. 3.4 Decimal Place Value (p. 58)
5. 3.5 Units of Measurement (p. 64)
6. 3.6 Locating and Comparing Decimals (p. 69)
7. 3.7 Addition and Subtraction of Decimals (p. 74)
8. 3.8 More on the Decimal System (p. 76)

At 55 pages and 8 sections it is the longest chapter — roughly a sixth of the whole book — with 34 questions indexed.

Chapter 4: Expressions Using Letter-Numbers (41 pages)

Chapter 4 introduces algebra through what the book calls letter-numbers. Letters stand in for unknown values, and expressions built from them model patterns and make predictions while following the same arithmetic rules as Chapter 2.

1. 4.1 The Notion of Letter-Numbers
2. 4.2 Revisiting Arithmetic Expressions
3. 4.3 Omission of the Multiplication Symbol in Algebraic Expressions
4. 4.4 Simplification of Algebraic Expressions
5. 4.5 Pick Patterns and Reveal Relationships

Chapter 4’s 5 sections and 24 questions carry the convention that later trips students: the multiplication symbol is omitted between a number and a letter, so 3 multiplied by \( x \) is written \( 3x \).

Chapter 5: Parallel and Intersecting Lines (34 pages)

Chapter 5 fixes the geometry of intersecting and parallel lines. When two lines cross they form four angles: vertically opposite angles are equal, and the two angles of a linear pair add up to \( 180^\circ \). Perpendicular lines meet at \( 90^\circ \), and a transversal cutting parallel lines creates corresponding and alternate angles.

1. 5.1 Across the Line
2. 5.3 Between Lines
3. 5.4 Parallel and Perpendicular Lines in Paper Folding
4. 5.5 Transversals
5. 5.6 Corresponding Angles
6. 5.7 Drawing Parallel Lines
7. 5.8 Alternate Angles
8. 5.9 Parallel Illusions

8 sections and 17 questions, plus 6 activities — the book’s only activities, all of them paper-folding — so a sheet of paper does much of the teaching here.

Chapter 6: Numbers Tell us Things (32 pages)

Chapter 6 is the pattern-and-puzzle chapter. It asks what a sequence of numbers can tell you before you know the actual values, using parity, grid explorations and the Virahāṅka–Fibonacci sequence, and closes with digits in disguise.

1. 6.1 Numbers Tell us Things
2. 6.2 Picking Parity
3. 6.3 Some Explorations in Grids
4. 6.4 Nature’s Favourite Sequence: The Virahāṅka–Fibonacci Numbers!
5. 6.5 Digits in Disguise

With 5 sections and 13 questions it is one of the lightest chapters in the book, and because it reads like puzzles rather than computation, it suits short bursts of revision.

Chapter 7: A Tale of Three Intersecting Lines (pp. 146–179)

Chapter 7 makes the case for the compass. When the side lengths of a triangle are given, a compass and ruler make construction routine — and three lengths form a triangle only when each is smaller than the sum of the other two.

1. 7.1 Equilateral Triangles (p. 146)
2. 7.2 Constructing a Triangle When its Sides are Given (p. 148)
3. 7.3 Construction of Triangles When Some Sides and Angles are Given (p. 160)
4. 7.4 Constructions Related to Altitudes of Triangles (p. 167)
5. 7.5 Types of Triangles (p. 170)

Chapter 7, ‘A Tale of Three Intersecting Lines’, is about constructions — have a compass and ruler ready, not a calculator. It has 5 sections and 19 questions. On page 156, there’s a figure with the caption ‘Circles intersecting each other at two points’.

Chapter 8: Working with Fractions (pp. 173–211)

Chapter 8 completes the book with fractions. Its multiplication rule, credited in the book to Brahmagupta, is \( \frac{a}{b} \times \frac{c}{d} = \frac{a \times c}{b \times d} \), and it insists on cancelling common factors before multiplying so the numbers stay small. Division of fractions and applied problems follow.

1. 8.1 Multiplication of Fractions (p. 173)
2. 8.2 Division of Fractions (p. 186)
3. 8.3 Some Problems Involving Fractions (p. 190)

Only 3 sections, yet 46 questions with 100 question parts — the heaviest question load in the book. The official chapter file, the NCERT PDF at https://ncert.nic.in/textbook/pdf/gegp108.pdf, closes the gegp1xx series used for this edition.

Chapter study pages for Ganita Prakash

The table below lists the per-chapter study pages this site is building for Ganita Prakash, with each chapter’s current status.

All eight chapters are under review, so most rows currently read “Not yet built” or “Drafting”. Statuses here update as pages are published.

How to use and download the NCERT Class 7 Maths textbook PDF

The book works fine in its own order, 1 to 8. If you are compressing, the lookup below routes you to the right chapter fast.

For a study order that matches how the topics build:

• Number work first: Chapters 1, 2, then 3 — Chapter 3 extends Chapter 1’s place value — then 8, which pairs with the decimals from Chapter 3.
• Algebra after arithmetic: Chapter 4 revisits arithmetic expressions before introducing letter-numbers.
• Geometry with tools ready: Chapter 5 then Chapter 7, with a compass and ruler on the desk. Chapter 7 is construction; Chapter 5 teaches through paper folding.
• Chapter 6 fits anywhere in short bursts.

Plan time by question load: Chapter 8 (46 questions), Chapter 3 (34) and Chapter 2 (27) take longest; Chapters 1 (12) and 6 (13) are quick wins. And remember the book’s format: every question sits inside the chapter text rather than in a closing exercise set, so “doing a chapter” means stopping at prompts as you read.

Three mistakes this book’s early chapters surface:

Which 7th Class Maths textbook PDF matches your syllabus

This page indexes the Ganita Prakash edition of Class 7 mathematics — the NCERT edition whose chapter files on ncert.nic.in carry the gegp1xx codes, gegp101 to gegp108.

• If your school follows Ganita Prakash, the PDFs in the download table above are the exact files to study from.
• If your school uses a different edition, confirm the title on the NCERT textbook page and against the current official syllabus before downloading.
• Textbook contents and the examinable syllabus are not always identical — check the current official syllabus.

Related NCERT book pages

These related pages on this site help you place Ganita Prakash in the wider NCERT shelf:

• NCERT books directory — the full index of classes and subjects this site covers
• Class 7 hub — the other NCERT books for Class 7
• Class 6 mathematics book — where this subject line begins the year before
• Class 8 mathematics book — where the subject line continues in Class 8

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.

The four statements below say plainly where this page’s numbers come from and what they do not cover.

• All the chapter and section titles, question counts, activity counts, and page ranges listed in the tables above are found in the NCERT Class 7 Ganita Prakash textbook itself, so each entry can be checked directly against the book.
• In this edition, the diagrams are printed without captions.
• This listing is maintained for the current academic session using the NCERT editions published on ncert.nic.in.
• NCERT settles textbooks, editions and PDFs; CBSE settles curriculum, syllabus and examinations. A chapter in the textbook is not proof of exam weight — always check the current official syllabus.

Reference: NCERT Class 7 Mathematics textbook (Ganita Prakash), official edition on ncert.nic.in. Figure captions and section titles quoted from the textbook; page references are to the official PDF.

FAQs about the Class 7 Ganita Prakash book

How many chapters are there in the NCERT Class 7 Ganita Prakash mathematics book?

Eight. The chapters run from Large Numbers to Working with Fractions across 313 printed pages, with 42 named sections and 192 questions indexed.

Is the Class 7 Ganita Prakash book PDF official and free to download?

Yes. The download table above links NCERT’s own chapter files on ncert.nic.in, and NCERT provides these textbooks at no charge — no login or purchase is involved.

Which chapter of the Class 7 Ganita Prakash book teaches decimals?

Chapter 3, A Peek Beyond the Point (pp. 46–100), is the decimals chapter. It is also the longest chapter in the book, covering tenths, hundredths, decimal place value, units of measurement, and addition and subtraction of decimals.

Which chapter of the Class 7 Ganita Prakash book teaches fractions?

Chapter 8, Working with Fractions (pp. 173–211), teaches fractions. It covers multiplication of fractions, division of fractions, and applied problems, and carries the book’s heaviest question load at 46 questions.

Where can I find solutions for the Class 7 Ganita Prakash book?

NCERT publishes no separate answer key with this student edition, and the book prints no end-of-chapter exercise bank — the 192 questions sit inside the chapters. Worked solutions appear on the per-chapter study pages on this site as those pages are published.