Year 3 Time 12 step warm up questions

A comprehensive set of time reasoning warm-up activities designed to develop understanding and mathematical explanation skills in Year 3.

This resource includes a 12-step sequence of “Do you agree or disagree?” reasoning prompts, each presenting a statement based on common misconceptions related to time.

Pupils are encouraged to:

Decide whether a statement is true or false

Explain their thinking clearly

Use appropriate mathematical vocabulary

Justify answers using clocks, timelines or calculations

What’s included:

12 structured reasoning steps

A range of time-based reasoning statements

Opportunities for discussion and explanation

Covers:

Reading time to the nearest minute

Using “past” and “to”

a.m. and p.m.

Midnight and noon

Duration and elapsed time

Units of time (seconds, minutes, hours, days)

Reasoning about real-life time problems

How it can be used:

Maths lesson starters

Whole-class discussion prompts

Partner or group reasoning tasks

Assessment for learning opportunities

Suitable for Year 3 and early Year 4.