Max Maths, Year 3, Learn together, Relationship among units of time (2)

In a Year 3 maths lesson, students learn about the relationship among units of time, focusing on how to convert weeks into days, hours into days, and seconds into minutes. For example, to find out how many days are in 2 weeks and 5 days, the students are taught that one week is equivalent to 7 days. Therefore, 2 weeks would be 2 times 7 days, which equals 14 days. By adding the additional 5 days, they discover that 2 weeks and 5 days total to 19 days.

Another conversion exercise involves turning days and hours into just hours. The students learn that one day is made up of 24 hours. To convert 3 days into hours, they multiply 3 by 24, resulting in 72 hours. By adding the extra 10 hours, they find that 3 days and 10 hours equal 82 hours in total. Similarly, when converting seconds into minutes and seconds, they use the fact that 60 seconds make up 1 minute. For example, 190 seconds can be broken down into 3 minutes (as 3 times 60 seconds) plus the remaining 10 seconds, making a total of 3 minutes and 10 seconds. Lastly, the concept of converting days into weeks and days is explored, with students learning that 10 days can be expressed as 1 week and 3 days, since 7 days make up 1 week and there are 3 days left over.