Grade 3

What is duration?

duration

How long something takes from start to finish.

For example

Break time has a duration of twenty minutes, from bell to bell.

In Grade 3

Children time real activities with a clock or a timer and compare how long each one took.

Watch out for

Children often subtract clock times as if they were ordinary numbers. An hour holds sixty minutes, not one hundred.

Say it at home

Time a task together and ask how long it took from start to finish.

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