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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.

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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 (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M2M04 Recognise and read the time represented on an analog clock to the hour, half-hour and quarter-hour AC9M2M03 Identify the date and determine the number of days between events using calendars 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 AC9M4M03 Solve problems involving the duration of time including situations involving "am" and "pm" and conversions between units of time AC9M5M03 Compare 12- and 24-hour time systems and solve practical problems involving the conversion between them AC9M6M03 Interpret and use timetables and itineraries to plan activities and determine the duration of events and journeys
Numeracy progression	Measuring time (P2, P3, P4, P5) Interpreting fractions (P3) Counting processes (P6)
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