Lesson Three – Minutes and Seconds
This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise converting different times of sporting events and games between durations that have been recorded in both minutes and seconds.
The class can calculate and record the timings of different races and competitions by changing their durations between minutes and seconds for each sport.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise converting different times of sporting events and games between durations that have been recorded in both minutes and seconds
Activities in this teaching pack include a differentiated set of worksheets to model and record how to convert different times of a range of sport races and competitions between timings that have been recorded in both minutes and seconds.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to convert different times of sporting events and games between minutes and seconds.
This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to practise converting between different units of time for hours, minutes and seconds and change a range of analogue and digital times using the twelve hour clock and calendar dates. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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