NCERT Solutions for Class 5 Maths Chapter 6: The Dairy Farm – Free PDF Download

Chapter 6 of Class 5 Maths Mela, The Dairy Farm, uses a dairy-farm setting — milk packets, butter pouches, compost — to explore multiplication patterns, doubling and halving, and multiplying by 10, 100, and 1000.

Last Updated: September 23, 2026

NCERT Solutions for Class 5 Maths Chapter 6: The Dairy Farm

What this chapter teaches.
Multiplication patterns and shortcuts; doubling and halving numbers quickly; multiplying by 10, 100, and 1000 by adding zeros; solving farm word problems, such as how many milk packets are produced from a given quantity of milk, or how many butter pouches from a batch; and representing numbers 1 to 24 using different shapes/groupings.

Activity 1 — Milk Packet Multiplication.
Given the number of litres a farm produces per day, children calculate how many 1-litre or half-litre packets that makes, and scale it up for a week or month.

Activity 2 — Double and Halve.
Children practise quickly doubling and halving numbers as a mental-math shortcut for multiplication and division.

Activity 3 — Multiply by 10, 100, 1000.
Children discover the pattern of adding zeros when multiplying whole numbers by 10, 100, or 1000.

Why This Chapter Matters

Multiplication patterns and mental-math shortcuts like doubling/halving save time and build number sense that supports later multiplication and division work.

How to Use These Solutions

Practise doubling and halving small numbers quickly out loud — this becomes a valuable mental-math habit. Download the full chapter from our Class 5 Maths NCERT book page, or browse the Class 5 hub.

More on This Chapter

See also the Extra Questions and Revision Notes for this chapter.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the shortcut for multiplying by 100?
Add two zeros to the end of the number.

What does “halving” mean?
Dividing a number by 2.

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