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Time: clock times to the minute and measuring duration

This guide provides a sequence of small steps for exploring time, from telling the time to 5-minute and 1-minute intervals and using a.m., p.m. and the 24-hour clock through to finding, comparing and measuring duration.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource, Teaching strategies
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Questioning, Explicit teaching
Keywords	time, clock, half past, quarter past, quarter to, hours, minutes, seconds, 24-hour clock, explicit teaching
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Number, Measurement, Build understanding
Topics	Addition and subtraction, Time
AC: Mathematics content descriptions	ACMMG039 Tell time to the quarter-hour, using the language of 'past' and 'to' ACMMG041 Use a calendar to identify the date and determine the number of days in each month ACMMG062 Tell time to the minute and investigate the relationship between units of time ACMMG085 Convert between units of time ACMMG086 Use ‘am’ and ‘pm’ notation and solve simple time problems ACMMG110 Compare 12- and 24-hour time systems and convert between them ACMMG139 Interpret and use timetables
National numeracy learning progression	Additive strategies Measuring time - MeT2, MeT3, MeT4
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