Telling time to the minute
Measure and begin to record time in hours, minutes, and seconds
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“If your child watches the second hand go all the way round a clock, can they count that as one minute — and estimate roughly how many minutes their favourite TV show lasts?”
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- Activity. Measure and begin to record time in hours, minutes, and seconds
What to notice. Use a sand timer or stopwatch to time an activity • Begin to understand that 1 minute = 60 seconds • Record a duration in simple terms (e.g. 'it took about 2 minutes')
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If your child watches the second hand go all the way round a clock, can they count that as one minute — and estimate roughly how many minutes their favourite TV show lasts?
Measure and begin to record time in hours, minutes, and seconds
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- Use a sand timer or stopwatch to time an activity
- Begin to understand that 1 minute = 60 seconds
- Record a duration in simple terms (e.g. 'it took about 2 minutes')
“If your child watches the second hand go all the way round a clock, can they count that as one minute — and estimate roughly how many minutes their favourite TV show lasts?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Domain
- Measurement
- Age range
- Ages 5–6
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