What Time Is It?

By the end of Grade 3, students should be able to read time using analogue clocks, to the nearest five minutes and using digital clocks and represent time in 12-hour notation.  Grade 2 students should be able to tell and write time to the quarter hour.  Both Grade 2 and 3 students should also be able to solve problems involving the relationships between minutes and hours, hours and days, days and weeks and weeks and years, using a variety of tools (clocks, calendars).

We have been working on these expectations in our class.  We have played on 'Jungle Time' which is an amazing time-telling app.  We have done clock matching puzzles, many 'math on the move' games,  a 'Crazy Clock Booklet' and some partner problem solving using our 'learning clocks'.

We have really improved at reading/telling and recording times.  We are still practicing our ability to apply this skill to solve time problems.

You can help at home by asking your child to figure out problems like the one we did in class today:

Mr. Stacey dropped his truck off at the garage to get fixed at 9:00 this morning.  It needs the brakes repaired and the oil changed.  The mechanic said it will take 2 hours and 30 minutes to fix the brakes and 45 minutes to change the oil.  What time can Mr. Stacey pick up his truck?  

Have fun creating your own 'time problems'.