Ideas for using clocks
The purpose of this resource is to provide whānau with suggestions about how to best support their children's understanding of time at home by using clocks.
About this resource
One of the ideas suggested is creating a maths kete at home. The kete will include materials that are helpful in learning about maths through making and finding things and playing games together. This page gives you a list of things that you can find around your house or can get cheaply from discount shops. For each item in your kete there are ideas and links to the Maths at Our House activity pages, as well as links to number knowledge activities. Many of the activities are games and have cards or boards that you can print off and add to your kete.
This page provides ideas for supporting children to understand time by using clocks.
Ideas for using clocks
Required materials
See Materials that come with this resource to download:
- He kōrero mō te wā (.pdf)
Maths at Our House activities
Time is a challenging concept for children, and yet sometimes it’s easy to take this skill for granted as an adult. If a child’s life is very structured, they may have few opportunities to tell the time or learn about it because everyone tells them where they need to be and when!
Learning about time has different components:
- noticing time and telling the time
- living with schedules and figuring out problems involving time
There are lots of places where clocks and timers appear in our lives:
- watches
- phones
- clocks: digital and traditional (analogue)
- timers: microwave, DVD, cooking, egg timer
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