Telling time to the minute (age 8+)
Your child can read the time to the nearest minute, on clock hands or a digital display, and write it down.
In curriculum terms
Tell and write time to the nearest minute using analogue and digital clocks
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How to tell they’ve got it
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If a clock's minute hand points just past the 9, can your child work out the exact time to the nearest minute — and write it in digital format?
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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 · 1 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
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
recognise and use the relationship between formal units of time including days, hours, minutes and seconds to estimate and compare the duration of events
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.