AC9M4M03 Year 4 Mathematics

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

Elaborations

• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration exploring First Nations Australians’ explanations of the passing of time through cultural accounts about cyclic phenomena involving sun, moon and stars