Use this Durations Quiz with your class to compare the duration of familiar events and activities.
Answers are displayed after each question is asked, providing numerous opportunities for class discussion and reasoning.
Use as a whole class to foster open discussions about duration or use during rotations as a fun hands on activity.
Describes mathematical situations using everyday language, actions, materials and informal recordings
Uses concrete materials and/or pictorial representations to support conclusions
Describes and compares lengths and distances using everyday language
Describes and compares the capacities of containers and the volumes of objects or substances using everyday language
Describes and compares the masses of objects using everyday language
Sequences events, uses everyday language to describe the durations of events, and reads hour time on clocks
Describes and compares lengths
Identifies half the length and the halfway point
Manipulates, describes and sorts three-dimensional objects
Describes and compares volumes
Describes and compares the masses of objects
Sequences events and reads hour time on clocks
Identify and compare attributes of objects and events, including length, capacity, mass and duration, using direct comparisons and communicating reasoning
Sequence days of the week and times of the day including morning, lunchtime, afternoon and night time, and connect them to familiar events and actions
Use direct and indirect comparisons to decide which is longer, heavier or holds more, and explain reasoning in everyday language
Compare and order duration of events using everyday language of time