Movie Minutes

Topics: Starter | Time

• Ingrid Allen, Glyn
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• The film theme made this work very well as they were keen on the films. It worked well with KS3. I often find the colours don't show up well, but they recognised the films any way.
• Mr I Rowe, Royal Alexandra And Albert School
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• My Year 7 class enjoyed the film questions and we talked about their favourite ones.
• Dom, Kingalfreds
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• Good fun, snappy and a good challenge.
• Swelbourn, Ladylumleys School
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• A really good functional skills question which highlight the need to show some workings although the question doesn't state this.
• Transum,
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• It is sometimes surprising how little formal, guided practice students have doing calculations with time when it is something they live with everyday. In fact time calculations may not be a part of your programme of study for this year at all. At least you can include it as a starter activity!
• Penny, Baradene College
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• Great! I used it on 11-12 year olds, simple enough for everyone to start. The skills practiced were adding time, converting between hours and minutes and problem solving. I explained the first one and walked around checking, then students worked on the others by themselves. Students wrote up answers on the board with working.
• Sandra C, London
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• I used this to show how you can add time mentally but also how to use a calculator with the degree, minute and second button.
  
  
  [Transum: Thanks Sandra. Wonderful comment. This calculator skill is part of the Calculator Workout.]

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