AC9M4M03 Year 4 Mathematics

This Content Descriptor from Year 4 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.

solve problems involving the duration of time including situations involving “am” and “pm” and conversions between units of time

Elaborations

• 1 calculating the amount of time between \(2\) events, such as the start and finish of a movie, a bus journey or a flight, including cases where the starting and finishing times are written using “am” and “pm” notation
• 2 converting units of time using relationships between units, such as \(60\) minutes in an hour and \(60\) seconds in a minute, to solve problems; for example, creating a daily timetable for an activity such as an athletics carnival or planning an exercise routine with activities and rests
• 3 exploring First Nations Australians’ explanations of the passing of time through cultural accounts about cyclic phenomena involving sun, moon and stars

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