Math Games

Grade 3 - Shape and Space

Standard 3.SS.1 - Understand the scale of how long different events should take. Compare seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks and months.

Included Skills:

Demonstrate understanding of the passage of time including:
• relating common activities to standard and non-standard units
• describing relationships between units
• solving situational questions.
• Observe and describe activities relevant to self, family, and community that would involve the measurement of time.
• Explore the meaning and use of time-keeping language from different cultures, including First Nations and Métis.
• Select and use a personally relevant non-standard unit of measure for the passage of time (such as television shows, a pendulum swing, sunrise, sundown, moon cycles, and hunger patterns) and explain the choice.
• Suggest and sort activities into those that can or cannot be accomplished in a minute, hour, day, month, or year.
• Select and justify personal referents for minutes and hours.
• Create and solve situational questions using the relationship between the number of minutes in an hour, days in a particular month, days in a week, hours in a day, weeks in a year, or months in a year (e.g., "A student was on holiday for 10 days. Is that more or less than one week long?").
• Identify the day of the week, the month, and the year for an indicated date on a calendar.
• Identify today's date, and then explain how to determine yesterday's and tomorrow's date.
• Locate a stated or written date (day, month, and year) on a calendar and explain the strategy used.
• Identify errors in the ordering of the days of the week and the months of the year.
• Create a calendar using the days of the week, the calendar dates, and personally relevant events.
• Describe ways in which the measurement of time is cyclical.