Maths: Record and compare time
Objectives
Compare duration of events
Read and compare time in
terms of seconds and
minutes
Starter
Time questions:
How many days in a week?
How many months in a
year?
How many hours in a day?
How many minutes in an
hour?
How many seconds in a
minute?
How many days in a year?
How many days in a leap
year?
Which month is the
shortest?
How many days are there in
month? (two answers)
How many months in two
years?
How many days in 3 weeks?
How many minutes in two
hours?
Y3
Teaching
How do we record time? What
measurements?
Which of these times is longer?
Couple of examples on the board or
use an interactive stopwatch
How can we work out an average
time? (Add the times together and
divide by how many there are) Do a
couple of examples together.
Activities
Children to record doing a variety
of exercises. How long does it
take? Record results in table.
Children to work out average.
Questions to finish that compare
their results.
10 star jumps
10 Shuttle runs
10 press ups
10 sit ups
10 bicep curls
Example questions:
What was your quickest time?
What was your slowest?
By how many seconds did you
improve/or get slower than your
first attempt compared to your
third attempt for star jumps?
Plenary
With your partner, in
60 seconds, can you
list all the
mathematical vocab
you’ve used today?
Maths: Record and compare time
Exercise Attempt Attempt Attempt Average
1
2
3
10 star
jumps
10
shuttle
runs
10 press
ups
10 sit
ups
10 bicep
curls
Y3