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Telling time to the minute
PROCEDURALMeasure and begin to record time in hours, minutes, and seconds
Mastery Evidence
- Use a sand timer or stopwatch to time an activity
- Begin to understand that 1 minute = 60 seconds
- Record a duration in simple terms (e.g. 'it took about 2 minutes')
Assessment Prompt
“If [child] watches the second hand go all the way round a clock, can they count that as one minute — and estimate roughly how many minutes their favourite TV show lasts?”
Curriculum Standards1 alignment
Maths/Y1/M/8The national curriculum in EnglandMeasure time
Measure and begin to record time (hours, minutes, seconds).
Mathematics · Key Stage 1
Prerequisites1
- Comparing durationshardAges 4—6
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- Comparing durations hard
Measuring time in units requires understanding time comparison language first
Unlocks3
- Telling Time: Hours and Half HourshardAges 5—6
- Number of minutes in an hourhardAges 6—7
- Sequence intervals of timehardAges 6—7