Max Maths, Year 6, Maths Challenge, Time review

In the Max Maths Year 6 Maths Challenge, students are tasked with converting various times into minutes and hours as a review of their time-telling skills. Challenge 3 requires students to transform hours into minutes. For example, they must calculate how many minutes are in 7 hours, 4 hours and 4 minutes, 3 hours and 50 minutes, and 2 hours and 30 minutes. This exercise helps students develop their understanding of time conversion by multiplying hours by 60 to find the equivalent in minutes and then adding any additional minutes provided.

Challenge 4 flips the previous task, asking students to convert minutes back into hours and minutes. They are given totals of minutes, such as 181, 333, 119, and 160, and must work out how these figures break down into full hours and the remaining minutes. This often involves dividing by 60 to find the number of hours and then calculating the leftover minutes. In Challenge 5, students apply these skills to real-life scenarios, such as determining the duration of a movie Toby watched that ran for 138 minutes, and figuring out how many minutes Jade spent playing in the park for 3 hours and 15 minutes. The Maths Challenge section extends the concept further, encouraging students to calculate the number of seconds in one hour and one day, as well as to estimate the number of weeks and days they have lived, applying the basic conversions that one hour equals 60 minutes and one minute equals 60 seconds.