Tell time to 5 minutes; Roman numerals - Teaching Presentation - Year 3

This presentation provides three days of teaching that cover the objectives:

• Telling time past the hour (to 5 mins) on analogue and digital clocks.
• Telling time to the hour (to 5 mins) on analogue and digital clocks.
• Know equivalent analogue and digital times.
• Use am and pm.

It includes starter activities, whole class teaching, group activities, practice sheets and mastery questions. It can be used on a variety of interactive whiteboards.

Day 1 Teaching
Show the ITP Tell the Time. Click to show 9 o’clock. Click round to show the 5 minutes past to half past 9. Then discuss how these times match to digital clock times. Show the 5 minute intervals through to 10 o’clock.

Day 2 Teaching
Launch the ITP Tell the Time and set the clock to 5 o’clock. Work out what the clock would look like in increments of 15 minutes, ask children to write down the time in digital format. Give out small analogue clocks and ask children to match o’clock, quarter past and quarter to digital times.

Day 3 Teaching
Launch a clock on the web (see address). Press the times button and children write matching digital times. Introduce am and pm and discuss how it is hard to tell if it is am or pm on an analogue clock.

This teaching is part of Hamilton’s Year 3 Time and Data block. Each Hamilton maths block contains a complete set of planning and resources to teach a term’s worth of objectives for one of the National Curriculum for England’s maths areas.