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Time: days, dates, o'clock times and half past times

This guide provides a sequence of small steps for exploring time, from sequencing events through to worded problems about time.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Foundation, Year 1, Year 2
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource, Teaching strategies
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Questioning, Explicit teaching
Keywords	days, dates, before, after, time, o'clock, half past, reasoning, problem-solving, explicit teaching
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Numeracy
Strand and focus	Measurement, Build understanding
Topics	Time
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9MFM01 Identify and compare attributes of objects and events, including length, capacity, mass and duration, using direct comparisons and communicating reasoning AC9M1M03 Describe the duration and sequence of events using years, months, weeks, days and hours AC9MFM02 Sequence days of the week and times of the day including morning, lunchtime, afternoon and night time, and connect them to familiar events and actions AC9M2M04 Recognise and read the time represented on an analog clock to the hour, half-hour and quarter-hour
Numeracy progression	Understanding units of measurement (P2) Measuring time (P1, P2) Interpreting fractions (P3)
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