Comparing Time Durations
Your child can work out how long something took from its start and end times. Cooking from 4:15 to 5:00 took 45 minutes.
In curriculum terms
Compare durations of events and calculate the time taken by particular events or tasks
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How to tell they’ve got it
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If your child starts cooking at 4:15 p.m. and finishes at 5:00 p.m., can they work out how long the cooking took?
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
recognise and use the relationship between formal units of time including days, hours, minutes and seconds to estimate and compare the duration of events
describe the duration and sequence of events using years, months, weeks, days and hours
compare directly and indirectly and order objects and events using attributes of length, mass, capacity and duration, communicating reasoning
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.