Teach understanding time with this teaching slide deck, designed to help students explore duration, read analogue and digital clocks and confidently work with units of time.
Understanding Time Through Interactive Teaching Slides
Developing an understanding time is an essential part of students’ mathematical learning. From estimating how long an activity will take to reading analogue and digital clocks, students need regular opportunities to explore time concepts in meaningful contexts.
This teaching presentation supports students as they learn about duration, estimation, seconds, minutes and hours, while also building confidence in reading and interpreting both analogue and digital time displays. Students practise reading o’clock, half-past, quarter-past and quarter-to times, as well as matching times shown on different clock formats.
The slides include discussion prompts, estimation tasks, real-world examples and interactive practice opportunities that encourage student participation and mathematical reasoning. This makes the resource ideal for introducing new concepts, revising key skills or consolidating learning throughout a time unit.
Creative Ways for Teaching Units of Time
This resource can be used in a variety of engaging ways, including:
- Time Detectives – Pause throughout the presentation and challenge students to identify examples of time measurement around the classroom or school.
- Classroom Timing Challenges – Use the duration and estimation slides to have students predict and measure how long everyday classroom activities take.
- Human Clock Role-Play – Have students become the hands of a large floor clock to physically model times shown throughout the presentation.
Download These Teaching Units of Time Slides
This resource is available as an editable PowerPoint file and Google Slides version. Simply use the Download button to access your preferred format and begin teaching straight away. Please note that you will be prompted to make your own copy of the Google Slides file before editing.
This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a TeachStarter collaborator.
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