Measurement - Length, Mass, Time

Curriculum details

Strand

Geometry and Measurement (Strand 3)

Sub-strand

Measurement - Length, Mass, Time (3.3)

Content standard

B3.3.3.3 - Demonstrate an understanding of time taken by events in days, weeks and months

Indicator

B3.3.3.3.2 - Read dates on the calendar, order dates of events and count days, weeks, months and years taken by given events

Suggested placement

Term 3, Week 9 (Week 33 of the year)

Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.

Source document note

The official curriculum document has a fault in this entry, so the curriculum text above is transcribed exactly as printed:

• exemplars - p.71

Curriculum reference

Mathematics Curriculum for Primary Schools (Basic 1-3), 2019, p. 71

Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

E.g. 2. Ask learners to say the rhyme "Thirty-days has September" 30 days has September, April, June, and November. All the rest have 31, Except for February alone, which has 28 days clear, and 29 in each leap year.
E.g. 3. Use the calendar to do the following:
- Identify or read the day of the week and the month of the year for a given calendar date.
- Identify the day (or month) that comes before or after a given day (or month)
- Name, order and count the days in a week and the months in a year,
- Identify certain events and when they occur within the year (Christmas, Easter, local festivals, leap years, FIFA world cup etc.) The document numbers this indicator's exemplars 2 and 3; there is no E.g. 1.