Max Maths, Year 6, Learn together, Time review (2)

In an educational resource for Year 6 students, Max Maths provides exercises to help students review and practise time conversions. One of the tasks involves using a conversion table to calculate the number of seconds in 3 minutes and 25 seconds. The table shows that one minute is equivalent to 60 seconds, and students can see that 3 minutes equals 180 seconds. By adding the extra 25 seconds to this, they find that 3 minutes and 25 seconds is equal to 205 seconds. This type of exercise reinforces their understanding of time units and how to convert between them using simple multiplication and addition.

Another exercise in the resource guides students to convert a longer time period, specifically 4 hours and 42 minutes, into minutes. The conversion table provided indicates that one hour is equal to 60 minutes. From this, students learn that 4 hours is the same as 240 minutes. To find the total number of minutes, they add the 42 minutes to the 240 minutes, resulting in a total of 282 minutes. Further extending this concept, the students are also asked to convert days into hours. Using the conversion table, they discover that 5 days equate to 120 hours, and by adding the additional 15 hours, they calculate that 5 days and 15 hours total 135 hours. These exercises help solidify students' understanding of time conversions and the use of multiplication and addition in practical applications.