Time - Analogue to Digital 24 hour- Presentation

In Lesson 9 of the educational series, students are challenged to deepen their understanding of time by converting analogue times to the 24-hour digital format. The significance of distinguishing between a.m. and p.m. is emphasised, as it is crucial for accurately representing times within the 24-hour system. The lesson begins with a discussion about the number of hours in a day and how times such as 1 o'clock are written in the 24-hour clock format. Students are then presented with activities that require them to match analogue clock faces with their digital counterparts, reinforcing the concept of a 24-hour day and the importance of specifying times as either a.m. or p.m. to avoid confusion.

Subsequent activities involve more practical applications of the 24-hour clock. For instance, students follow a character named Tia as she leaves school at 17:55, attends a violin lesson 40 minutes later, and then returns home after the lesson and additional travel time. Students must calculate and show what time Tia gets home using the 24-hour digital format. Additional exercises require students to convert various times into the 24-hour format, considering whether the times are in the morning or afternoon. The lesson also includes reasoning tasks where students analyse scenarios to determine if times expressed in different formats coincide, and if the simple rule of adding 12 to post-midday times to convert to the 24-hour format always applies. Independent work challenges students to identify the odd one out in sets of clock faces and to create their own time-related questions for peers.