Skip to main content
Tāhūrangi - New Zealand Curriculum
Support
Tāhūrangi - New Zealand Curriculum
Support
Switch Curriculum:

Me he Karaka

This is a level 2 measurement strand activity from the Figure It Out series. It is focused on knowing units of time. A PDF of the student activity is included.

<img src="/images/decorative.jpg" alt="" />

About this resource

Figure It Out is a series of 80 books published between 1999 and 2009 to support teaching and learning in New Zealand classrooms.

This resource provides the teachers' notes and answers for one activity from the Figure It Out series. A printable PDF of the student activity can be downloaded from the materials that come with this resource.

Specific learning outcomes:

  • Know units of time.
Reviews
0

Me he Karaka

Achievement objectives

GM2-1: Create and use appropriate units and devices to measure length, area, volume and capacity, weight (mass), turn (angle), temperature, and time.

Required materials

  • Figure It Out, Level 2–3, Measurement, "Me he Karaka", page 19

See Materials that come with this resource to download:

  • Me he Karaka activity (.pdf)

Activity

 | 

This activity builds on the previous page by asking students to show the time taken for each hand to complete a full turn:

  • Minnie Minute Hand: 1 hour
  • Oliver Hour Hand: 12 hours
  • Sasha Second Hand: 1 minute

The students’ cartoons for question 4 will reveal their understanding of the role of each hand:

Analogue clock indicating meetings for three different people at three different times.

Turning the setting knob of an analogue classroom clock can establish the times when the hour and minute hand meet. Encourage the students to try to find a pattern in these times:

3 analogue clocks; 1:05, 2:10, 10:50.

Note that the times are not exactly “5 past 1”, “10 past 2”, etc.

The further the hour hand is around the clock, the further on from the hour number it is when the hands meet again. Students may be able to establish that there are 11 times on an analogue clock when the minute and hour hands meet. These times are (approximately):

1:05, 2:11, 3:16, 4:22, 5:27, 6:33, 7:38, 8:43, 9:49, 10:54, 12:00.

1.

a. 3 o’clock
b. half past 4
c. 10 to 9

2.

60 minutes (1 hour)

3.

12 hours

4.

Answers will vary. One possible answer is:

Analogue clock with time showing as 12:15.

5.

60 seconds (1 minute)

6.

Just after 5 past 1

The quality of the images on this page may vary depending on the device you are using.