Time and duration: Year 9 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 9 is for the topic of Time and duration. Students are introduced to expressing numbers in scientific form. This descriptor applies scientific form specifically to time. Students require a good understanding of place value and powers of ten. Students should know where the notation is used and be able to estimate and round correctly. The term ‘significant figures’ should be compared to and contrasted with ‘decimal places’.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 9
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Planning support, Teaching resource, Teaching strategies, Student task, Home practice tasks
Format	Web page
Keywords	lesson plans, assessment task, teaching strategies, pedagogies, Australian Curriculum, learning from home, misconceptions
Curriculum alignment
Strand and focus	Measurement
Topics	Time
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M9M02 Solve problems involving very small and very large measurements, time scales and intervals expressed in scientific notation
Numeracy progression	Measuring time (P5)
Copyright details
Organisation	Commonwealth of Australia
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