NCERT Solutions for Class 5th Maths Chapter 14 Draw your room, mark the direction arrow, and list the things in each direction — Make a Map of Your Own Room
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Q1.
Make a drawing of your room and locate the direction in which different things have been placed in relation to you standing at the centre of the room. Make the direction arrow for your room.
Answer
Do it in five steps. The empty blue box in your book is the space for the drawing.
Find east first. Early in the morning, stand in your room and see which wall the sunlight comes through. That wall is roughly east.
Turn and face that wall. Left hand → north, right hand → south, back → west.
Draw the room as a rectangle, as if you were a bird looking down at it. Do not draw it from the side.
Draw a small direction arrow in one corner of your drawing, with N, E, S and W marked, so that north matches the real north of your room.
Draw the things in — bed, almirah, door, window, table, mat — each against the wall where it really stands. Mark a small dot in the middle and write "me" on it.
Your own map will look different — but it must have the direction arrow and a dot for you.
Sample answer: "My room is a rectangle. The window is on the north wall. The almirah is on the west wall. My bed is on the east wall. The door is on the south wall. I stand in the middle."
Why we draw from above: A map is always a view from above. Seen from above, left and right on the paper can be matched to west and east in the real world. A side view cannot do that.
Q2.
Write the names of the things that are placed in the following directions. East _____________________________________________________
Answer
Write the things that lie in the direction the E arrow points on your own map.
Stand at the dot marked "me" on your drawing.
Look along the arrow marked E.
Write down every object you meet in that direction.
Sample answer: East — my bed, the bedside table and the school bag hanging on the wall.
Why the answer is yours alone: Every room faces a different way. Two friends can both be right and still write completely different lists. What must be the same is the method: find east from the Sun, mark it, then read your map.
Q3.
West _____________________________________________________
Answer
Write the things that lie in the direction opposite to east on your map.
Stand at the "me" dot again.
Turn to face the W arrow. This is the wall the evening Sun shines on.
Write down the things you see on that side.
Sample answer: West — the almirah, the mirror and the small stool.
Write the things that lie towards the N arrow on your map — the direction your left hand points when you face east.
Sample answer: North — the window and the study table below it.
Tip: If a thing sits between two arrows, say both: "the study table is to the north-east". That is more useful than forcing it into one word.
Q5.
South _____________________________________________________
Answer
Write the things towards the S arrow — the direction your right hand points when you face east.
Sample answer: South — the door and the shoe rack beside it.
Check your four lists like this: Every big thing in the room appears in exactly one list. Nothing has been written twice. Nothing has been left out.
Why this task matters: Once you can turn your own room into a map, you can read anybody's map — a camp map, a street map, even a metro map. It is all the same skill: find north, then say where things are from where you stand.