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Class 3 · English Medium · Pearson Edexcel · Mathematics

Time and duration

Explore time and duration with an example and your own answers.

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Original Kidemy foundation practice · Read the example, write your answers, then check. This starter is shared across class versions; it is not a complete board-specific lesson or course.

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Learn the idea

Find duration by counting through useful clock times. There are 60 minutes in one hour.

Worked example

From 2:40 to 3:00 is 20 minutes; from 3:00 to 3:15 is 15 more. Total: 35 minutes.

  1. Read the example and explain which rule or evidence it uses.
  2. Try each task yourself, then compare the answer and its reason.

Your written practice

Show your working on paper. Check your answer, then choose Next.

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40

Count to the next hour.

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120

Each hour has sixty minutes.

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9:35

Add twenty-five minutes to 9:10.

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Apply the idea in a new situation and explain your method. Open writing needs a guardian or teacher to review it.

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35

Count fifteen minutes to nine, then twenty more.

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12:15

Twenty minutes reaches twelve, then fifteen more.

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There are ten minutes to 3:00 and ten more to 3:10. Clock minutes run to sixty, not one hundred.

Explain the hour boundary.

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