A piece of folk math: a child asked a flock of birds, "How many are you? A bird replied. We and us again, with half of us and half of that With one more, Would make hundred" How many birds were there?

There are some lotus flowers in a pond. Some birds in flight thought of resting on them. When each bird sat on a flower, one bird had no seat. When a pair of birds sat on each flower, one flower had no bird. How many flowers? How many birds?

On Arts day,180 sweets were distributed equally among the students. Tasting one sweet Deepa said,“It is a pity that 9 of our friends are absent today.” Hearing this Deepu said “Because of that we got one sweet more”: How many students were present on that?

A string of length one metre is cut into five equal parts. What is the length of half of one such piece? How many centimetres?

One litre of millk fills two identical bottles. A quarter of the milk in one bottle is used to make a cup of tea. How much milk was used to make tea?'Hòw many millilitres?

Describe each of these problems using division or reciprocals. and find the answer. 1) A 16 metre rod is cut into (2)/(3) metre pieces. How many pieces do we get?

Aluminium sheets were bought to make doors for the bath rooms in the houses of Jawahar one lakh housing colony. One sheet measures 43 (3)/(4) metres. How many doors measuring 1(1)/(4) metre length can be made using this sheet?