Telling time to the minute (age 9+)
Solve problems involving converting between units of time (hours↔minutes, minutes↔seconds, years↔months, weeks↔days)
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If your child needs to convert 2 hours 35 minutes into just minutes, can they do it — and then convert 180 seconds into minutes and seconds?
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Curriculum alignment
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Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
solve problems involving the duration of time including situations involving “am” and “pm” and conversions between units of time
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 relationship between the hours and minutes on analog and digital clocks, and read the time to the nearest minute
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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.