AC9M3M04 Year 3 Mathematics

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 Mathematics provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

describe the relationship between the hours and minutes on analog and digital clocks, and read the time to the nearest minute

Elaborations

• 1 representing and reading the time on an analog clock using the markings and the positions of the hands, to the nearest minute mark or five-minute interval
• 2 reading and connecting analog and digital time, interpreting times, recognising and using the language of time; for example, \(12\):\(15\) as a quarter past \(12\), or \(15\) minutes past \(12, 12\):\(45\) as a quarter to one or \(15\) minutes before one o’clock and \(10\):\(05\) as \(5\) minutes past \(10\)
• 3 reading analog clocks throughout the day, and noticing and connecting the position of the hour hand and the distance the minute hand has travelled during the current hour

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