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A Understand Time Intervals Less Than One
Second
Learning Outcome: Understand time intervals in milliseconds

Caz times herself as she walks. How long does she take to walk 5 steps?

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 (a) Dropping a Ball
Yusof drops a ball from a height of 1 metre.
Anna drops a ball from a height of 10 metres.
The timers show the time taken for both balls to reach the ground
in seconds (s) and milliseconds (ms).
Yusof’s Ball Anna’s Ball

Anna’s ball will take more than 1 second to reach the ground.
Yusof’s ball will take less than 1 second to reach the ground.
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 (b) How long did Hana take?

Hana takes a breath while running.

She takes 500 milliseconds to take

a breath.

She takes 500 seconds to run 1

round on the track.

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 B Find Time Intervals
Learning Outcomes:
(1) Find time intervals in seconds, minutes and hours
(2) Recognise that a time interval can be expressed as a decimal, or in
mixed units

How long is the train journey?

How can you find out?
Discuss with your partner.

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 B Find Time Intervals

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 (a) How long does the school bell ring?
The clocks show the start and end times for the school bell to ring.
How long does the school bell ring?

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 (a) How long does the school bell ring?

There are 6 time intervals from 9 to 3.

There are 5 seconds in each interval.

6 × 5 s = 30 s

The school bell rings for 30 seconds.

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 (b) How long did it take Amy to reach
school?
The clocks show the time Amy left her house and the time she reached
school. How long did it take Amy to walk to school?

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 (b) How long did it take Amy to reach
school?

4 26

4 min + 26 min = 30 min

It took Amy 30 minutes to walk to school.

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 (c) How long did it take Josh to reach
town?
Josh started driving to a town at 14 45. The journey takes 2.5 hours.
What time will he reach the town?

+1h +1h + 15 min + 15 min

14 45 15 45 16 45 17 00 17 15

Josh reached the town at 17 15.

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 C Compare Time
Learning Outcomes: Compare times between time zones in digital notation
(12- and 24-hour) and on analogue clocks

Eddy is looking at his flight details.

What time will he reach Singapore?
What do you think?
Talk to your partner
about how you know.

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 C Compare Time

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 (a) World Time Zone Map
The world is divided into
24 time zones.

The time zones are

1 hour apart.

A time zone is a specific

part of the world that has
the same local time.

The local time is the

official time in a country.

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 (b) What is the time difference?

Singapore lies in the

time zone labelled +8.

Tokyo lies in the

time zone labelled +9.

The time difference between

Singapore and Tokyo is 1 hour.

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 (c) What is the local time?
The clocks show the local times and days in two cities.

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 (c) What is the local time?
What is the local time in London when it is 5 am on Monday in Jakarta?
The time difference between Jakarta and London is 7 hours.

Jakarta is 7 hours ahead of London.

The local time in London is 10 pm on Sunday.

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10 pm

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