Duration - Foundation

Introduce Foundation students to duration through familiar, real-life examples with this complete, ready-to-teach mathematics unit. Children build an understanding of how long everyday activities take, explore seconds, minutes and hours, and compare shorter and longer events.

The scaffolded sequence combines explicit teaching, visual displays, printable practice, practical sorting tasks, interactive games, a quiz and assessment so early learners can develop time concepts through discussion, play and inquiry.

What’s Included

• 74-page resource pack
• Duration teaching presentation with explicit instruction and examples
• Durations classroom display and visual reference posters
• Six worksheets: All About Duration; Which Takes Longer?; Shortest to Longest; It Takes…; What is the Duration?; and Duration Check Up
• Two interactive games: Duration Action Cubes and Duration Sorting Cards
• Duration quiz presentation with 10 questions
• How Long Does It Take? assessment
• Duration assessment rubric
• Answer keys included

Learning Focus

• Understand duration as the amount of time an event takes.
• Recognise seconds, minutes and hours as units of time.
• Compare activities that take a shorter or longer time.
• Order familiar events by duration.
• Use reasoning and discussion to explain time comparisons.

Classroom Use

Ideal for whole-class teaching, small-group instruction, maths rotations, practical investigations, independent practice, revision and assessment. Use the presentation for explicit teaching, the display as a visual reference, the games for hands-on consolidation, and the worksheets, quiz and assessment to check understanding.

Curriculum Alignment

• Australian Curriculum v9.0: AC9MFM01
• Australian Curriculum v8.4: ACMMG006
• Victorian Curriculum 2.0: VC2MFM01
• NSW: MAE-GM-02; MAE-GM-03; MAE-3DS-01; MAE-3DS-02; MAE-NSM-01
• Western Australia: ACMMG006
• Common Core State Standards: CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.MD.A.1; CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.MD.A.2
• United Kingdom: UK-KS1-Y1-MATH-M
• New Zealand: NZ-Y1-MATH-MEAS-M-2; NZ-Y0-MATH-MEAS-M-2
• TEKS: TEKS-MATH-GK-1C; TEKS-MATH-GK-1D; TEKS-MATH-GK-1E; TEKS-MATH-GK-1F; TEKS-MATH-GK-1G; TEKS-MATH-GK-1A; TEKS-MATH-GK-1B; TEKS-MATH-GK-7A; TEKS-MATH-GK-7B
• Ontario: CAN-GK-MATH-OE16; CAN-G1-MATH-E2.1; CAN-G1-MATH-E2.2

Product Details

• Year level: Foundation
• Subject: Mathematics
• Topic: Duration, time concepts and measurement
• Formats: PDF and Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx)
• Answer key: Included with assessment rubric

Licence

Licensed for use by the purchasing teacher in their own classroom or home-learning setting. Do not share, resell, redistribute or post the files publicly.

Digital product: No physical item will be shipped. PowerPoint files require compatible presentation software.