Maths topic · New Zealand
Telling time
Reading analog and digital clocks and working out how long things take.
Lessons
Year 4Maths
Measure It: Length, Time and Mass in the Real World
Whose foot is the right ruler? How long is a minute, really? Is a kilogram of feathers lighter than a kilogram of rocks? Four lessons where students measure length, time and mass with real tools, then use their own data to settle an argument.
Year 7 to Year 9Science
Natural Selection: How Living Things Change Over Time
A peppered moth hunting game over four generations, the Grants' real Galápagos finch data from the 1977 drought, whale fossils in rock-layer order with a forelimb bone comparison, and five case stations on selective breeding and antibiotic resistance. Every lesson runs on printed sheets alone: no materials to buy.
Online practice
- Tell time to the hour Year 2
- Tell time to the hour and half hour Year 2
- Write times in words and digits Year 2
- Time an hour later Year 2
- Tell time to the nearest five minutes Year 3
- Write quarter past, half past and quarter to Year 3
- Minutes from the minute hand Year 3
- Count coins to 1 dollar Year 3
- Count coins and bills Year 3
- Value of coins Year 3
- Cents in coins of the same kind Year 3
- Make change within 100 cents Year 3
- Add and compare prices in cents Year 3
- Read a clock to the minute Year 4
- Write the time: minutes to the hour Year 4
- What time will it be? Minutes later Year 4
- What time was it? Minutes earlier Year 4
- Elapsed time in minutes Year 4
- Find the start time Year 4
- Elapsed time word problems: 2 hours or less Year 5
- Elapsed time word problems: 4 hours or less Year 5
- Elapsed time: train and bus times (24-hour clock) Year 5
- Elapsed time on the 24-hour clock: up to 5 hours Year 5
- Elapsed time with a.m. and p.m.: up to 5 hours Year 5