Time - Start and end times - Starter

In a Year 3 mathematics lesson, students delve into the concept of time, specifically focusing on understanding and comparing start and end times. The lesson commences with a 'Fluent in Four - Revision' exercise, where students tackle various problems to warm up their numeracy skills. One of the challenges includes performing arithmetic operations with tens, hundreds, and ones to find the correct answer. Additionally, students are tasked with using comparison symbols (greater than, less than, or equal to) to evaluate the durations between different pairs of start and end times, both in the morning and afternoon/evening periods.

The lesson further encourages students to apply their understanding of numbers to real-life contexts. They complete bar models that represent data on different hair colours, with the total number of people for each hair colour given or to be determined. For instance, students are provided with the numbers for orange and red hair and must figure out the total for green hair. They also work on pictograms, a visual method of representing data where each symbol corresponds to a certain value. In this case, the key for the pictogram is given as '1', and students must use this to accurately complete the pictogram, ensuring they have a clear and correct representation of the data presented.