Measurement & Geometry
Chapter 11 | Time
Teacher Resource Sheets
Months and years
This displays some famous dates in history with photos to accompany them.
Students are asked how many days before Christmas the famous events occurred.
This displays pictures of some famous buildings and the date they were built (completed).
Students are asked how many centuries and decades old they are.
They are then asked to find how many decades there are between pairs of the buildings.
Changing between analogue and digital time
This displays the Getting started on page 197.
You could make or bring a sun dial to class and get students to use it to read the time.
This displays some analogue clocks on one side of the page and the time in words on the other side.
On page two the same clocks are shown on one side with the digital times on the other side.
These times are in different colours so you can refer to them easily.
You could use this with a smart board or pdf reader, or project it onto a surface you can write on so you can match the times with a line.
This displays Roman numerals on clocks and asks students what each numeral stands for.
The way Roman numerals are formed is shown.
Students are asked to write a few Roman numerals.
This displays some photos with some questions.
Students are asked what they might have to do with time.
Example: A photo of a rugby game is shown. Students might suggest that you need to know the time the game started, the time when it is half time and full time, the time taken to get to the game and get home from the game etc.
am and pm time
This displays some photos of students doing things like getting up, eating breakfast, eating lunch and going to bed etc.
Students are asked to write down what time they did each of these tasks yesterday. They are asked to write it in analogue time, then draw the clock and write it in am or pm time and digital time.
They are asked to compare their times with a partner.
Estimating and working with time
Note that students will need to know how to draw a stem and leaf plot.
You will need one stopwatch between each pair of students
This displays a list of tasks for students to do and time.
They are asked to estimate how long they think it will take first.
Collect the estimated and actual times for each activity on two separate stem and leaf plots.
Order the data values on each plot.
You could print these off for students to fill in, use with a smart board or pdf writer, or project the sheets onto a write-on surface.
You could ask questions about the stem and leaf graphs such as:
How did the estimated and actual times compare?
What is the most frequent time taken for each task?
