Expected level of development
Australian Curriculum Mathematics V9: AC9M6M03
Numeracy Progression: Measuring time: P4
At this level, students focus on developing fluency in reading and interpreting a timetable or schedule.
Present students with relevant timetables, for example: public transport, plane flights, classroom school days, special day events or for casual work shifts. Pose relevant questions for investigation. The tasks may include:
- using the timetable for trip planning
- calculating the duration of particular events and activities
- creating their own timetable to order events.
Teaching and learning summary:
- Investigate a range of timetables and schedules.
- Interpret 12-hour and 24-hour time formats.
- Model how to calculate elapsed time.
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Teaching strategies
A collection of evidence-based teaching strategies applicable to this topic. Note we have not included an exhaustive list and acknowledge that some strategies such as differentiation apply to all topics. The selected teaching strategies are suggested as particularly relevant, however you may decide to include other strategies as well.
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Explicit teaching
Explicit teaching is about making the learning intentions and success criteria clear, with the teacher using examples and working though problems, setting relevant learning tasks and checking student understanding and providing feedback.
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Questioning
A culture of questioning should be encouraged and students should be comfortable to ask for clarification when they do not understand.
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Classroom talks
Classroom talks enable students to develop language, build mathematical thinking skills and create mathematical meaning through collaborative conversations.
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Teaching resources
A range of resources to support you to build your student's understanding of these concepts, their skills and procedures. The resources incorporate a variety of teaching strategies.
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reSolve: Time: Mission control to ISS
A sequence of lessons that requires students to solve problems that involve timelines and timetables.
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TIME: A guide for teachers – Years F–8
This document contains information and classroom activities related to time.
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Day trippers
This is a level 4 measurement, geometry, statistics and a level 5 number activity from the Figure It Out theme series. They are focused on interpreting information from timetables, charts, and scale maps, drawing routes, finding average speeds, and calculating percentages of money amounts, and showing percentages on pie charts. A PDF of the student activity is included.
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Queenstown extravaganza
This is focused on using information to design a timetable.
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