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Clock it up
Students make a clock using a folding method that creates equal distance between the numbers 1 to 12. They represent different times at 5-minute intervals.
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| Year level(s) | Year 3 |
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| Audience | Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource |
| Format | Web page |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Explicit teaching, Mathematics investigation, Concrete Representational Abstract model, Differentiated teaching |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Strand and focus | Measurement |
| Topics | Time |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M3M03
Recognise and use the relationship between formal units of time including days, hours, minutes and seconds to estimate and compare the duration of events |
| Numeracy progression |
Measuring time (P3)
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| Organisation | nzmaths |
| Copyright | © New Zealand Government. Free-for-education material. |
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