Time - Quarter past and quarter to - Starter

In a mathematics session aimed at Year 3 students during the Summer Term, children engage with a variety of problems to test their arithmetic and reasoning skills. The lesson includes a 'Fluent in Four' revision segment, where students tackle four different questions. One task involves performing a subtraction operation: starting with seven hundreds and sixteen ones, they must subtract six tens, five hundreds, and seven ones, leading to a calculation of 716 minus 567, resulting in 149. Another question prompts pupils to read the time displayed on a clock, reinforcing their understanding of telling time, particularly focusing on 'quarter past' and 'quarter to'.

Additionally, the children are presented with a real-life scenario involving 297 children at a disco, with 146 being girls. They are asked to calculate the number of boys, which involves subtracting the number of girls from the total number of children, yielding 151 boys. The session also includes challenges related to geometry, where students must find the lengths of missing sides on shapes given the total perimeter. For instance, they must determine the unknown sides of shapes with perimeters of 18cm and 30cm, using the provided side lengths of 5cm and 4cm. Through these exercises, students apply their knowledge of addition and subtraction, as well as concepts of perimeter and time, to solve problems and enhance their mathematical fluency.