Telling Time

Students in grade 3 have been working hard to learn how to measure time.

We learned that there are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours in a day. Through direct instruction and engaging math centres, students have been learning how to read time from analog and digital clocks and have even started learning how to tell 24 hour time!

One of the students’ favourite math centre was the ‘How Many Seconds’ centre in which they were able to use a stopwatch to see how long it would take them to do a variety of actions. For example: How long would it take them to do 20 jumping jacks.

They also loved our ‘Multiplication Fortune Teller’ Station.

Another highlight was our Time Scavenger Hunt, in which students had to go around the room to find the different analogue clock cards and read the time.

Mathematics Learning Outcome:

Students tell time using clocks.

Student Learning Objectives:

• I can investigate relationships between seconds, minutes, and hours using an analog clock.
• I can relate minutes past the hour to minutes until the next hour.
• I can describe time of day as a.m. or p.m. relative to 12-hour cycles of day and night.
• I can tell time using analog and digital clocks.
• I can express time of day in relation to one 24-hour cycle.