Time Units and Calendar Facts
Know the number of seconds in a minute and the number of days in each month, year, and leap year
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If you ask your child how many days are in September and whether this year is a leap year, can they answer both — and tell you how many seconds are in a minute?
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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
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
identify the date and determine the number of days between events using calendars
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.