12-hour and 24-hour time
Read, write, and convert time between analogue and digital 12-hour and 24-hour clocks
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If a train timetable shows a departure at 14:35, can your child convert that to 12-hour clock time — and tell you whether that's morning or afternoon?
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Curriculum alignment
Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).
Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
compare 12- and 24-hour time systems and solve practical problems involving the conversion between them
describe the relationship between the hours and minutes on analog and digital clocks, and read the time to the nearest minute
recognise and read the time represented on an analog clock to the hour, half-hour and quarter-hour
NSW syllabus codes & stages only
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.