The key ideas of this chapter, answered through the six guiding questions. Read them with your textbook.
🧠 Concept map: Time and money
1What am I looking at?
Answer: Reading a clock and a calendar, and counting Indian coins and notes.
2What are its main parts or ideas?
Answer: A clock has an hour hand (short) and a minute hand (long); 60 minutes = 1 hour, 7 days = 1 week. ₹1 = 100 paise.
3How does it work?
Answer: Read the hour hand first, then the minutes: when the long hand is on 6 it is half past. Add coins and notes to find a total.
4Why is it important?
Answer: We plan our day with time and buy things with money.
5What happens if something changes?
Answer: When the minute hand goes once round, the hour hand moves to the next number.
6What should I remember for the exam?
Answer: Tell time to the hour, half hour and quarter hour, read dates, and make amounts and change.
📗 Full lesson: Time and calendar
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🖼️ 2D concept map
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Animated clock face whose hands move from 4 o'clock to half past 4
ℹ️ Simplified clock without minute marks.
🎯 Learning outcomes
Order daily events and use words like morning, afternoon and night
Read a clock to the hour and half hour
Name the days of the week and months of the year
Before you start: Counting up to 12.
📖 Explanation
A clock has a short hand that shows the hour and a long hand that shows minutes. When the long hand points to 12, it is o'clock; when it points to 6, it is half past.
A day has morning, afternoon, evening and night. A week has 7 days: Monday to Sunday. A year has 12 months, from January to December.
A calendar shows the dates of a month in rows of weeks.
🇮🇳 Example from India
Independence Day is on 15 August and Republic Day is on 26 January; we can find both on a calendar.
⚠️ Common mistake
✗ At 3 o'clock the long hand points to 3 ✓ At o'clock times the long hand points to 12 and the short hand points to the hour.
🧪 Try this activity
Make a paper-plate clock with a split pin. Set it to your school start time and lunch time.
✍️ Question bank with answers
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Multiple choice1 mark · easy
How many days are there in a week?
Answer
C. 7
A week has 7 days, from Monday to Sunday.
Multiple choice1 mark · easy
The long hand is on 12 and the short hand is on 8. What time is it?
Answer
B. 8 o'clock
Long hand on 12 means o'clock; the short hand shows 8.
Multiple choice1 mark · easy
Which month comes after March?
Answer
A. April
The order is January, February, March, April …
Very short answer1 mark · easy
Which day comes after Friday?
Answer
Saturday
Very short answer1 mark · easy
Which is the first month of the year?
Answer
January
Short answer2 marks · medium
What do you do in the morning and at night? Write one thing for each.
Marking points
Any morning activity such as brushing teeth
Any night activity such as sleeping
Long answer4 marks · hard
Look at a calendar for this month. How many Sundays are there and on which dates?
Marking points
Count the Sunday column
List each date correctly
Application2 marks · medium
School starts at 9 o'clock and ends at 3 o'clock. Is it morning or afternoon when school ends?
Answer
Afternoon
Diagram / label2 marks · medium
Draw a clock showing half past 4.
Answer
Long hand on 6
Short hand halfway between 4 and 5
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