Camp timetable 0 Overview Using this Resource Connecting to the Curriculum Marking Student Responses Working with Students Further Resources This task is about adding and subtracting time. Question 1Change answer Here is the programme for the school camp. Here is the programme for the school camp. a) What time is dinner? b) How many hours (and parts of hours) is it from ... i) wake up time until the bush walk? hours ii) sport until dinner? hours iii) the bush walk until sport? hours iv) wake up time until bed time? hours v) lunch until dinner? hours vi) breakfast until the bush walk? hours Task administration: This task is completed with pencil and paper or online with auto-marking. Level: 3 Curriculum info: Maths, Geometry and Measurement, Measurement Keywords: time, chart interpretation, a.m., p.m., addition Description of task: Students answer questions and make time calculations based on a camp timetable. Curriculum Links: This resource can help to identify students' understanding of applying measurement sense to interpreting timetables and calculation with time. Answers/responses: Y7 (03/1999) a) 5:30 p.m. [Do not accept without p.m.] very easy b) i) ii) iii) iv) v) vi) 3 3 1/2 4 14 5 2 1/4 or 2 hours 15 minutes easy easy easy easy moderate moderate Diagnostic and formative information: Common error Likely reason a) Ignores p.m. b) i) ii) iii) iv) v) vi) 4 hours 4 hours 30 mins 5 hours 15 6 hours 3 hours 15 mins Times are all 1 hour too much. Probably a renaming problem in the subtraction. b) ii) 7 Time from sport to bed. b) iii) 2 Subtraction based on noon = 10 rather than 12. b) iv) 3:45 Incorrect subtraction – subtracts bigger number of minutes from the smaller number of minutes. Bus timetable II
