Year 2 time problems about a school day, over three pupil pages and an answer key. Six cards each show a start clock and a blank end clock. Playtime starts at quarter past 10 and lasts 15 minutes, lunch lasts half an hour, and a film runs from 3 o'clock to 4 o'clock. Page 3 asks how many minutes are in an hour, how many hours are in a day, which is longer, 30 minutes or 1 hour, and puts three times in order. It follows England National Curriculum measurement for Year 2.
Measurement
“compare and sequence intervals of time”
Question 4 on page 3 puts three times in order, and the six cards ask pupils to find an end time from a start time and a length.
Measurement
“know the number of minutes in an hour and the number of hours in a day”
Questions 1 and 2 on page 3 ask for 60 and 24, and the Time Facts box on page 1 states both.
Measurement
“tell and write the time to five minutes, including quarter past/to the hour and draw the hands on a clock face to show these times”
Each card starts from a clock to read and ends with hands drawn on a blank clock, mostly at quarter past, half past and quarter to.
A box states that there are 60 minutes in 1 hour and 24 hours in 1 day.
Six cards about playtime, lunch, a film, maths, story time and music. Pupils draw the end time on a blank clock beside the start clock and write the answer on a line. Three of the six last 15 minutes.
Four questions. Pupils give the minutes in an hour and the hours in a day, say which is longer, 30 minutes or 1 hour, then put half past 2, quarter past 2 and quarter to 3 into an Earliest, Next and Latest table.
Each end time with where the hands point, for example quarter to 10 (9:45) for maths, then the answers to the four time questions.
Model the first card
Do playtime on a teaching clock first. Move the minute hand on 15 minutes and let pupils see it land on 6, then send them to the other cards in pairs.
Challenge card
Card 4 is the odd one out, because maths lasts 45 minutes rather than a quarter or half hour. Keep it for confident pupils.
Ordering plenary
Use question 4 at the end of the lesson. Hold up the three times on mini-whiteboards and ask pupils to stand in order from earliest to latest.
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