NCERT Mathematics Book for Class 2 (New NCERT)
The NCERT Mathematics textbook (Joyful Mathematics) for Class 2. All 11 chapters are listed below; full content, topic notes and downloadable PDFs are being added — check back soon.
Chapters
- Ch. 1 A Day at the Beach
- Ch. 2 Shapes Around Us
- Ch. 3 Fun with Numbers
- Ch. 4 Shadow Story (Togalu)
- Ch. 5 Playing with Lines
- Ch. 6 Decoration for Festival
- Ch. 7 Rani's Gift
- Ch. 8 Grouping and Sharing
- Ch. 9 Which Season is it?
- Ch. 10 Fun at the Fair
- Ch. 11 Data Handling
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The NCERT Mathematics textbook for Class 2 is published here in its new ncert edition, as part of the primary stage of the NCERT curriculum, where the focus is on building strong reading, number and observation skills through simple language and activity-based exercises. NCERT — the National Council of Educational Research and Training — writes and publishes this textbook as the standard reference for Mathematics in CBSE and CBSE-affiliated schools across India, and it's what most school-level exams and homework for Class 2 are set against.
This page is organised chapter by chapter, matching the structure of the printed textbook exactly, so a chapter number here always lines up with the same chapter number in the physical or PDF book. Each chapter links through to its full text and, where available, a step-by-step NCERT Solution written against the exercises in this specific edition.
Because NCERT periodically revises its textbooks, both a "New NCERT" and an "Old NCERT" edition can be in use at the same time in different schools. NCERT Archive keeps the two fully separate — this page covers only the new ncert edition of Mathematics for Class 2. If you're looking for the old edition instead, it's linked from this page (where published) so you don't end up mixing chapters, exercise numbers or solutions between the two.
Reading the chapter first and attempting its exercises independently, before checking the matching NCERT Solution, tends to build a stronger and more exam-ready understanding of Mathematics than starting with the answers. Where NCERT has published an official PDF for this book, it's linked directly and marked "Official NCERT Source" so there's never any doubt about where it came from.