NCERT Solutions for Class 5 Mathematics Chapter Maps and Locations

This worksheet provides complete and accurate NCERT Solutions for Class 5 Mathematics Chapter Maps and Locations. This chapter helps students understand directions, maps, and locations using simple activities and real-life examples. It is important because it builds basic skills of navigation, observation, and spatial understanding. This worksheet follows the NCERT pattern and ensures that students can learn concepts step-by-step with correct answers.

Chapter summary: stories, poems & themes

This worksheet is activity-based and focuses on understanding directions and maps through practical tasks. Students explore directions like east, west, north, and south using the Sun and simple observations. They work with maps such as a room map, zoo map, and metro map. Activities include drawing, colouring, tracing routes, and locating objects or animals on grids. The main theme is understanding location and direction through visual and hands-on learning.

What this NCERT chapter covers?

• Understanding directions like east, west, north, and south  
• Reading and interpreting maps  
• Identifying routes and locations  
• Working with grid-based maps and coordinates  
• Observing symbols and coloured routes in maps  
• Activity-based learning through drawing and tracing  

How to use these NCERT solutions?

• Students should first try solving each question on their own  
• After attempting, they can check answers from this worksheet  
• Parents and teachers can guide students using these solutions  
• All answers follow the same order as given in the worksheet  
• Helps in better revision and clear understanding of concepts  

Student tips & learning tricks

• Always remember that the Sun rises in the east  
• Practice directions using real-life surroundings  
• Carefully observe maps before answering  
• Follow each step in route-based questions  
• Avoid guessing answers without checking directions  

Why NCERT solutions are important?

• These NCERT Solutions follow the exact curriculum  
• Help students build strong foundational concepts  
• Improve problem-solving and map-reading skills  
• Boost confidence during exams and assessments  
• Ensure accurate and reliable learning  

Complete answer key – NCERT solutions

Finding directions

1. East  
2. North  
3. South  
4. West is behind him  

Bird watching

1. student-generated activity  

Map of a room

1. student-generated activity  

Room directions

1. Window – North  
2. Bed – East  
3. Cupboard – West  
4. Bedside table – South  

Zoo trip and bus route

1. Hospital Road , East  
2. Left , Park Road , South  

a. Prem’s House and Raju’s House  
b. Move from Ravi’s house towards the main road, then go north and east to reach the Children’s Park  
c. Stop 1 (S1)  
d. Move from Golu’s house towards Hospital Road and then towards the nearest stop (S1).  
e. North  

Delhi metro train stations

1. Different coloured lines represent different metro routes  

Metro map routes

a. Trace routes such as Yellow Line → interchange → Blue Line to reach Supreme Court  
b. Central Secretariat  
c. Route via Central Secretariat (shortest route)  
d. Yellow Line → Blue Line  

Let us do

1. student-generated activity  

Anthill in the zoo

a. 2 cm east  
b. 3 cm , north  
c. 2 cm west; then 2 cm south  
d. 3 cm south, then 3 cm east, and finally 2 cm north  

1. The path with the least number of centimetres (least steps) on the grid  

Locating the animals in the zoological park

1. 4 steps ; fourth column  
2. 1 step north ; first row  

1. Locate the animal at the following positions on the map  

a. Bird  
b. Tiger  
c. Elephant  
d. Flamingo  
e. Crocodile  
f. Zebra  

2. Write the position of the following animals on the map  

a. 4,3  
b. 6,4  
c. 4,1  
d. 9,6  

3. Place dots of different colours on the following positions  

e. 1,1  
f. 11,3  

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