Hickory Dickory Dock, The mouse ran up the clock ...

If the red hand is on the ten and ...

A very useful life skill is being able to tell the time. This last week in class we have been working on a wide range of activities to help us understand time. We thought of all sorts of examples of when we need to tell the time in everyday life such as being at school on time, having lunch, getting the bus and going to the cinema. All of these events rely on good time keeping. Estimating the passage of time is really quite tricky but some of us were brilliant at estimating the passage of one minute.

Estimating one minute - Brilliant!

If there are 60 seconds in one minute then ...

As we have developed our understanding we have been working out time durations between two different times. Later in the week we used our knowledge to convert seconds, minutes, hours and days. Did you know that there are 3,600 seconds in one hour? You work that out by doing 60 x 60. We don't do our 60 times table in class but we do know that 6 x 6 = 36 so 60 x 60 = 3,600 seconds. That's why we keep practising our key times table knowledge as it helps us in so many areas of maths. Well, time is getting on ...