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MathematicsMeasurementusually ages 6–7

Number of minutes in an hour

Know the number of minutes in an hour and the number of hours in a day

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If your child knows there are 60 minutes in an hour, can they tell you how many minutes are in 2 hours — and how many hours make a whole day?

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Builds on
Telling time to the minuteages 5–6Knowing 60 min = 1 hour and 24 hours = 1 day extends from measuring time in hours/minutes/seconds
Number of minutes in an hourthis skill · ages 6–7
Unlocks
Time Units and Calendar Factsages 7–8Extends knowing minutes in an hour to seconds in a minute and days in months

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).

Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

AC9M3M03low confidenceYear 3 · Measurement

recognise and use the relationship between formal units of time including days, hours, minutes and seconds to estimate and compare the duration of events

AC9M3M04low confidenceYear 3 · Measurement

describe the relationship between the hours and minutes on analog and digital clocks, and read the time to the nearest minute

AC9M2M04low confidenceYear 2 · Measurement

recognise and read the time represented on an analog clock to the hour, half-hour and quarter-hour

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2M3M03low confidenceMathematics · Level 3 · Measurement strand
VC2M3M04low confidenceMathematics · Level 3 · Measurement strand

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.

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