Calendars, Timetables and Calculators

#TheCompleteSeries5lessons

Through a variety of fun contexts and activities, your class will learn how to use calendars and timetables to solve problems, using calculators to solve and check those calculations which are just too big to do using a written method!

With lesson plans, slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets and a wide range of other printable resources, these Year 5 time and measure Maths lessons provide all you need to tick off a whole week of Maths planning on your own calendar!

#Lesson1ReadingCalendars

This Reading Calendars KS2 Maths lesson for Year 5 starts by recapping what your children already know about how years are arranged into months, weeks and days before using calendars to solve a variety of problems. They will need to brush up their knowledge of telling the time too!

The planning pack for this Reading Calendars KS2 lesson contains everything you need to challenge every learner in your class to develop their skills in solving time problems. There's a lesson plan with differentiated activity ideas, an engaging slideshow for the teaching input, and a range of printable resources to support your class as they read and interpret calendars, solving some tricky problems as they do so.

#Lesson2LifelongCalculations

This fun lesson teaches your Year 5 children how to class to calculate periods of time by exploring how long a variety of famous people lived for, from Dr Seuss to Michael Jackson. Children will express their answer in years, months, weeks and days, as well as thinking about how some of these units of time can be converted.

In order to solve these problems, your KS2 class will need to draw upon their understanding of how units of time are related to each other, and use time conversions to calculate periods of time accurately.

This Lifelong Calculations lesson is fully planned and ready to teach with a lesson plan, slides, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources to challenge your class to solve these tricky time problems.

#Lesson3PlanetYearsandDays

Do your class know how long a day lasts for on Jupiter? How about the length of a year on Mars? This lesson looks at the definitions of years and days, and challenges your class to work out the length of planetary years and days in a variety of Earth time units. Calculators are definitely needed for some of the questions in this lesson!

A really fun lesson for helping your class explore and convert units of time, this Planet Years and Days lesson comes fully planned and ready for you to deliver to your class. Download the lesson plan, slideshow and printable resources and get a great ready-to-teach Year 5 Maths lesson that will consolidate and challenge their understanding of units of time.

#Lesson4CinemaTimetables

This Cinema Timetables KS2 Maths lesson for Year 5 children explores how timetables work and what they show. Your children will use a cinema timetable to work out a variety of problems, including film durations, screening times and travel times, converting units of time as they do so to make the problem-solving easier. There is also the opportunity to become cinema managers and create their own timetables based on a set of given criteria.

This engaging Cinema Timetables KS2 planning pack comes with a detailed lesson plan, a slideshow for the whole-class input, differentiated activity ideas, and a range of printable resources, including timetables, to support and challenge children as they carry out their independent learning tasks.

#Lesson5BusTimetableProblems

During this Bus Timetable Problems KS2 Maths lesson your Year 5 class will identify what time certain buses depart and arrive on a given route, and use this information to solve a variety of problems. There are several differentiated activities they can undertake during their independent learning to develop these skills, including following clues to complete a partially-completed bus timetable.

This Bus Timetable Problems KS2 lesson pack contains everything you need to challenge your Year 5 mathematicians to complete, read and interpret information in timetables, including a lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources.

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Curriculum Objectives covered

• Year 5 - solve problems involving converting between units of time
• Year 5 - complete, read and interpret information in tables, including timetables