Project Topics
Two Topics should be done for the project.
• Comparative newspaper coverage of different items.
• Survey of various types of Bank accounts, rates of interest offered.
• Planning a home budget.
• Conduct a survey in your locality to study the mode of conveyance / Price of various essential
commodities / favourite sports. Represent the data using a bar graph / histogram and estimate the
mode.
• To use a newspaper to study and report on shares and dividends.
• Set up a dropper with ink in it vertical at a height say 20 cm above a horizontally placed sheet of
plain paper. Release one ink drop; observe the pattern, if any, on the paper. Vary the vertical
distance and repeat. Discover any pattern of relationship between the vertical height and the ink
drop observed.
• You are provided (or you construct a model as shown) - three vertical sticks (size of a pencil) stuck
to a horizontal board. You should also have discs of varying sizes with holes (like a doughnut). Start
with one disc; place it on (in) stick A. Transfer it to another stick (B or C); this is one move (m). Now
try with two discs placed in A such that the large disc is below, and the smaller disc is above (number
of discs = n=2 now). Now transfer them one at a time in B or C to obtain similar situation (larger disc
below). How many moves? Try with more discs (n = 1, 2, 3, etc.) and generalise.
• The board has some holes to hold marbles, red on one side and blue on the other. Start with one
pair. Interchange the positions by making one move at a time. A marble can jump over another to
fill the hole behind. The move (m) equal 3. Try with 2 (n=2) and more. Find the relationship
between n and m.
• Take a square sheet of paper of side 10 cm. Four small squares are to be cut from the corners of
the square sheet and then the paper folded at the cuts to form an open box. What should be the
size of the squares cut so that the volume of the open box is maximum?
• Take an open box, four sets of marbles (ensuring that marbles in each set are of the same size) and
some water. By placing the marbles and water in the box, attempt to answer the question: do larger
marbles or smaller marbles occupy more volume in a given space?
• An eccentric artist says that the best paintings have the same area as their perimeter (numerically).
Let us not argue whether such sizes increase the viewer’s appreciation, but only try and find what
sides (in integers only) a rectangle must have if its area and perimeter are to be equal (Note: there
are only two such rectangles).
• Find by construction the centre of a circle, using only a 60-30 setsquare and a pencil.
• Various types of “cryptarithm