NCERT Class 5 Math-Mela Book: Chapters, Activities & PDF

The NCERT Class 5 Math-Mela book is the official mathematics textbook for Class 5, and every chapter of it is available as an official PDF on this page. The book runs to 15 chapters and 200 pages, with one NCERT file per chapter — all linked in the table below.

What this page adds is a picture of the book itself: what each chapter actually teaches, how long it runs, and how many hands-on activities it sets. That lets you choose where to start — fractions, division, time, maps — without opening a single PDF.

Download the NCERT Class 5 Math-Mela book PDF

The files are NCERT’s own, hosted on ncert.nic.in, and the book is published chapter-wise — one official PDF per chapter, with file codes running from eemm101 to eemm115.

If you want to verify the source, Chapter 1, Reading and Writing Large Numbers, sits directly at ncert.nic.in/textbook/pdf/eemm101.pdf, and the table above links all 15 official files on the same site.

Class 5 Maths book CBSE PDF: the 15 chapters at a glance

Here is the book measured from its own pages — the numbers you can check in the chapter table below.

• 15 chapters across the book’s 200 printed pages.
• 43 activity blocks — the hands-on tasks that carry most of the teaching.
• 0 numbered sections — Math-Mela teaches through activity headings such as Let Us Do, Try This and Let Us Think instead of numbered sub-sections.
• All 15 PDF links point to NCERT’s official chapter files on ncert.nic.in.

These counts describe this NCERT textbook, not the full CBSE scheme for Class 5.

What each chapter of Math-Mela teaches

The directory counts what is actually inside each chapter. A section is one of NCERT’s own numbered headings — Math-Mela prints none, so that column reads 0.

An activity is a hands-on task set inside the chapter, such as a fraction kit, an alphabet cutout or a windmill firki. A question is an end-of-chapter exercise — Math-Mela sets problems inside activity headers such as Solve the following word problems rather than in a separate exercise block, so the question column reads 0.

The book’s illustrations are unnumbered and live inside the activities, so this page carries no figure index either.

The chapter notes below follow the printed order of the book.

Chapter 1: Reading and Writing Large Numbers (pp. 1-16)

This opening chapter builds the number sense the rest of the book depends on: reading and writing large numbers, understanding place value, and rounding numbers to the nearest ten, hundred and thousand. It then sends learners looking for large numbers in real life, so the ideas are met as things people actually measure and count.

1. Let Us Do
2. Nearest Tens (10s), Hundreds (100s), and Thousands (1,000s)
3. Let Us Think
4. Travelling, Now and Then
5. Finding Large Numbers Around Us
6. Pastime Mathematics
7. King’s Horses

With 3 activities across 16 pages, it is a gentle opening that keeps the work hands-on from day one.

Chapter 2: Fractions (pp. 17-31)

Fractions are built from pictures and things before any rule is given. Learners shade and split a grid, work with a fraction kit, and then move to equivalent fractions and comparing fractions — same denominator, same numerator, fractions greater than 1, and comparison against the reference points of 1 and one half.

1. Playing with a Grid
2. Fun with Fraction Kit
3. Let Us Do
4. Making Equivalent Fractions
5. Comparing Fractions—Same Denominator
6. Comparing Fractions—Same Numerator
7. Fractions Greater Than 1
8. Comparing Fractions With Reference to 1 (a whole)
9. Comparing Fractions with Reference to \(\frac{1}{2}\)
10. Try This

At 7 activities across 15 pages, this is the most activity-heavy chapter in the book.

Chapter 3: Let Us Do (pp. 32-41)

Angles are explored by making a simple angle measuring tool and then using it, and turns are explored by predicting and checking them. The chapter mixes construction with questioning — build the tool, try it, think about what it shows.

1. Let Us Do
2. Angle Measuring Tool
3. Let Us Think
4. Try these
5. Fun with Turns

It runs just 10 pages with no separate activity blocks — the doing sits directly inside the headings.

Chapter 4: Making Sums Equal (pp. 42-56)

Addition and subtraction of large numbers are taught inside contexts that make the sums meaningful — fuel arithmetic, sums of consecutive numbers, and the longest land route. The chapter makes the relationship between the two operations explicit, then finishes with quick sums and differences and even and odd numbers.

1. Fuel Arithmetic
2. Let Us Solve
3. Relationship Between Addition and Subtraction
4. More Fuel Arithmetic
5. Sums of Consecutive Numbers
6. The Longest Land Route—Adding Large Numbers
7. Subtracting Large Numbers
8. Quick Sums and Differences
9. Let Us Think and Solve
10. Even and Odd Numbers

One activity across 15 pages makes it a story-driven practice chapter for the first two operations.

Chapter 5: Let Us Find (pp. 57-69)

Length is the focus: measuring the same thing with different units of measure, comparing measures, and working with long distances in kilometres through a race and a train journey. The chapter also measures and draws small things, so it spans from the very long to the very small.

1. Different Units but Same Measure
2. Let Us Compare
3. Measuring Long Distances
4. Let Us Do
5. Let Us Explore
6. Kilometre Race
7. Longest Train Journey
8. The World of Small Things
9. Let Us Measure
10. Let Us Draw

5 activities across 13 pages make it one of the most hands-on measurement chapters in the book.

Chapter 6: Let Us Think (pp. 70-91)

Multiplication gets the longest chapter in the book. Learners look at the order of numbers in multiplication, spot number patterns when multiplying by 10s and 100s, try many ways to multiply, use doubling and halving, and find the nearest multiple — with contexts such as waste and composting keeping the practice connected to real life.

1. 5. Make your own numbers.
2. Order of Numbers in Multiplication
3. Patterns in Multiplication by 10s and 100s
4. Many Ways to Multiply
5. Doubling and Halving
6. Nearest Multiple
7. Let Us Solve
8. Waste and Composting
9. Let Us Multiply
10. Let Us Do

At 22 pages with 2 activities, it is one of the two longest chapters and the home of most of the book’s multiplication practice.

Chapter 7: Weaving Mats (pp. 92-103)

Shapes move from flat patterns to solid forms. Learners try tessellation, play with circles and circle designs, then build connections from cubes to bigger 3D shapes such as the icosahedron and the dodecahedron.

1. Let Us Try
2. Tiling and Tessellation
3. Find Out
4. Try This
5. Play with Circles
6. Circle Designs
7. Cube Connections
8. Icosahedron and Dodecahedron

12 pages with 1 activity — a visual chapter that teaches through patterns and construction.

Chapter 8: Weight and Capacity (pp. 104-118)

Weight and capacity are explored with weighing balances, comparisons between different weights, and the same measure written in different units. A king’s weight, a journey from tiny to big, and a grocery store give the measuring real contexts.

1. Check! Check!
2. Let Us Do
3. Different Units but Same Measure
4. Weighing Balance 1
5. Weighing Balance 2
6. Let Us Find
7. Comparison between Different Weights
8. King’s Weight
9. From Tiny to Big
10. The Grocery Store

3 activities across 15 pages keep the measurement work concrete and practical.

Chapter 9: Coconut Farm (pp. 119-135)

Division is taught through patterns in division and place value, mental strategies, and a step-by-step approach to learning to divide. Word problems set on Susie’s farm in Kerala — including Kalpavruksha coconut oil — carry the practice into situations a learner can picture.

1. Let Us Play
2. Let Us Do
3. Patterns in Division and Place Value
4. Mental Strategies for Division
5. Try It!
6. Let Us Solve
7. Susie’s Farm in Kerala
8. Let Us Learn to Divide
9. Solve the following word problems
10. Kalpavruksha Coconut Oil

5 activities across 17 pages make it the longest chapter on operations and the one with the most word-problem work.

Chapter 10: Symmetrical Designs (pp. 136-141)

Symmetry is learned by making things: alphabet cutouts that fold or flip, a windmill firki, and designs built from both. The chapter ends with thinking, exploring and a project.

1. Alphabet Cutout
2. Let Us Do
3. Let Us Make a Windmill Firki
4. Making Designs
5. Let Us Think
6. Let Us Explore
7. Project Work

With 4 activities packed into 6 pages, it is the shortest chapter in the book.

Chapter 11: Grandmother’s Quilt (pp. 142-154)

Comparing shapes happens through the blocks of a quilt — exploring how shapes relate without measurement formulas. The activity headers keep the work open-ended: do, explore, play.

1. Let Us Do
2. Comparing Shapes
3. Let Us Explore
4. Let Us Play

6 activities across 13 pages place it among the most activity-heavy chapters in the book.

Chapter 12: School Race (pp. 155-163)

Time is the topic — specifically the conversion of hours to minutes — and the school race gives every conversion a context a learner can picture. Two short activity headers keep the chapter tight.

1. Let Us Do
2. Let Us Find
3. Conversion of Hours to Minutes

3 activities and 9 pages make it a compact chapter for a single focused session.

Chapter 13: Animal Jumps (pp. 164-170)

Number work becomes a puzzle: finding hidden numbers through animal jumps. Learners follow the number patterns the jumps reveal, then continue the work in a second activity block.

1. Find the hidden numbers.
2. Let Us Do

At 7 pages with 2 activities, it is the lightest chapter — ideal for a quick revision session.

Chapter 14: Maps And Locations (pp. 171-178)

Maps and directions are read together: finding directions, following a zoo trip and a bus route, and reading the Delhi Metro train stations and metro map. A map of a room and an anthill in the zoo keep the work personal and playful.

1. Finding Directions …
2. Four Little Chicks
3. Bird Watching!
4. Map of a Room
5. Zoo Trip
6. Bus Route
7. Delhi Metro Train Stations
8. Metro Map
9. Let Us Do
10. Anthill in the Zoo

8 pages with 1 activity — short and visual, a good change of pace after the operations chapters.

Chapter 15: Child TV Reporter (22 pages)

The book’s final chapter works like a project. Learners collect and record information the way a reporter would — stock-taking in a shop, counting two-wheelers on the road, recording a day, and measuring food wastage in the school canteen. It then reviews earlier ideas, which makes data handling and recording the through-line of the chapter.

1. Stock-Taking in a Shop
2. Two-wheelers on the Road
3. Recording a Day
4. Day in My Life
5. Food Wastage in the School Canteen
6. True or False
7. Fractions Kit
8. Tessellation and Shapes
9. Number Tokens

At 22 pages it ties Chapter 6 as the longest chapter, and its review tasks make it the natural end-of-book project.

Chapter study pages for Class 5 Math-Mela

Each chapter below has its own study page on this site; the table shows which are ready. Unpublished chapters stay unlinked until they are available.

How to download the NCERT Class 5 Maths book PDF for free

The book is published chapter-wise, so each chapter is its own official PDF and you download exactly the part you need.

• The download path: every chapter’s official PDF is on ncert.nic.in, linked in the table at the top of this page. The file codes run from eemm101 to eemm115, so once you bookmark a chapter’s file, you can return to it directly.
• The order to study: start with number work — Chapter 1 (large numbers), then the operations chapters 4, 6 and 9 (addition and subtraction, multiplication, division). Do Chapter 2 (fractions) next, then measurement in Chapters 5 and 8, angles and shapes in Chapters 3, 7, 10 and 11, and finally time and maps in Chapters 12 and 14. Keep Chapter 13 for a short revision session and Chapter 15 as the end-of-book project.
• The common mistake: treating Math-Mela as a question bank and skipping the activities. The activities carry the teaching, and doing them with paper, a fraction kit or a cutout is how the book works.

Related resources

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Sources and data verification

• The chapter details on this page describe the NCERT Class 5 Mathematics textbook Math-Mela, official edition, published chapter-wise as eemm101–eemm115 on ncert.nic.in.
• This page covers that one book and no other edition — not older Class 5 maths textbooks.
• The listing is maintained for the current session.
• NCERT settles textbooks, editions and official PDFs; CBSE settles the curriculum and examinations. Textbook contents and the examinable syllabus are not always identical — check the current official syllabus.

Reference: NCERT Class 5 Mathematics textbook (Math-Mela), official edition on ncert.nic.in. Section titles and activity headings quoted from the textbook; page references are to the official PDF.

Frequently asked questions about this book

How many chapters are in the NCERT Class 5 Math-Mela book?

There are 15 chapters in all, running to 200 printed pages. Each chapter has its own official PDF, and every link is in the download table at the top of this page.

Is the Class 5 Math-Mela book PDF official and free to download?

Yes. Every chapter PDF is NCERT’s own file, hosted free on ncert.nic.in. Class 5, 5th class, 5th standard and std 5 mean the same grade, and Math-Mela is the NCERT textbook for it.

Which chapter of the Class 5 Maths book covers fractions?

Chapter 2, Fractions, on pages 17 to 31. It teaches equivalent fractions and comparing fractions through grids and a fraction kit.

What does Chapter 13 of Class 5 Maths cover?

Chapter 13, Animal Jumps, is a short number-puzzle chapter on pages 164 to 170. Learners find hidden numbers through the jumps and continue the pattern work in a second activity block.

Where can I find answers for the Math-Mela book?

The problems sit inside the activities rather than in a separate exercise block, so checking happens with the teacher in class. This book has no separate printed answers section.