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MathematicsMeasurementusually ages 7–8

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

How to tell they’ve got it

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Try this together

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?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on
Number of minutes in an hourages 6–7Extends knowing minutes in an hour to seconds in a minute and days in months
Time Units and Calendar Factsthis skill · ages 7–8
Unlocks
Converting measurement unitsages 8–9Knowing seconds/minute, days/month etc. is prerequisite to unit conversion problems
Comparing Time Durationsages 7–8Knowing time unit relationships supports duration calculations

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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

AC9M3M03medium 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

AC9M3M04medium confidenceYear 3 · Measurement

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

AC9M2M03low confidenceYear 2 · Measurement

identify the date and determine the number of days between events using calendars

NSW syllabus codes & stages only

MA2-NSM-02low confidenceMathematics K-10 · Stage 2
MA1-GM-02low confidenceMathematics K-10 · Stage 1

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2M3M03medium confidenceMathematics · Level 3 · Measurement strand
VC2M1M03medium confidenceMathematics · Level 1 · 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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