Build Time Management Skills with the “Elapsed Time Game”
Make learning about time fun and interactive with the “Elapsed Time Game.” This board game challenges players to solve real-world time problems involving addition, subtraction, and calculating durations. The game is perfect for enhancing critical thinking and problem-solving skills in a collaborative classroom setting.
Why Your Class Will Love It
Real-World Scenarios: Students solve practical time-based questions, such as calculating travel times, baking durations, and event schedules.
Interactive Gameplay: The game involves dice rolling and point scoring, adding excitement and competition to the learning process.
Builds Numeracy Skills: Students practise addition, subtraction, and elapsed time calculations in a fun context.
Collaborative and Independent Learning: The game can be played in pairs, small groups, or individually.
How It Works
Players roll two dice, add the numbers, and answer the corresponding question from the game board.
Correct answers earn 2 points, while incorrect answers deduct 3 points.
Players roll again if the question has already been answered.
The winner is the player with the highest score at the end of the game.
Suggested Uses
Solve problems involving the duration of time including situations involving “am” and “pm” and conversions between units of time
Compare 12- and 24-hour time systems and solve practical problems involving the conversion between them
Interpret and use timetables and itineraries to plan activities and determine the duration of events and journeys
Use ‘am’ and ‘pm’ notation and solve simple time problems
Convert between units of time
Measure, calculate and compare elapsed time
Use am and pm notation and solve simple time problems
Uses appropriate terminology to describe, and symbols to represent, mathematical ideas
Selects and uses appropriate mental or written strategies, or technology, to solve problems
Reads and records time in one-minute intervals and converts between hours, minutes and seconds
Estimates, measures and compares the masses of objects using kilograms and grams