Time - Analogue to Digital 24 hour- Starter

The educational resource from Master the Curriculum provides a series of mathematical exercises for Year 4 students, focusing on the conversion of analogue to digital time in a 24-hour format, alongside other arithmetic challenges. The exercises include a 'Fluent in Four' section, which aims to revise key concepts through a set of four questions. For instance, students are asked to calculate '5 less than 95 tens divided by half of 30', and to determine what time it will be one hour after '2 to 1 p.m.', which is 12:58 in 24-hour digital time. These questions are designed to enhance students' fluency in mathematics through daily practice.

In addition to time conversion, the resource includes problems that require students to apply their knowledge of fractions and decimals, such as converting 30 hundredths to a decimal, which is 0.3. There are also practical word problems, like dividing 18 sweets equally among 3 children, where each child would receive 6 sweets. Furthermore, the exercises encourage the development of reasoning skills through problems involving coin combinations and fact families related to multiplication and division. For example, students are given a scenario with 8 columns of 7 and asked to write the corresponding fact family, leading to the equations 8 x 7 = 56 and 56 ÷ 7 = 8. These activities are thoughtfully designed to strengthen students' understanding and application of mathematical concepts in various contexts.