The football match starts 1h 20m after 08:05. Wind the clock forward to find out when.
This engine’s own main skill is Time & Money. It practises convert units alongside it, and covers most of it rather than all.
Winding forward 1h 20m from 08:05 lands on 09:25 - the hour hand moves too, one twelfth as fast as the minute hand, which is why it sits between the numbers. Then 30p takes at least 3 coins from this tray: there is no 10p in it, so you have to build the amount from what is actually there.
Step 1. Wind the clock. Wind the minute hand forward 1h 20m from 08:05.
Step 2. Count the coins. A programme costs 30p. Drag coins into the purse to pay it exactly.
What to say if they get stuck
Grab the long minute hand and wind it forwards. Watch the little hour hand creep round with it.
One whole lap of the minute hand is one hour. You need 1h 20m.
For the coins, start with the biggest coin that fits inside 30p and keep going.
How convert units differs from the skills beside it
The same exercise practises several skills, and telling them apart is often the difficulty rather than the exercise itself. On this page the skill is: convert one measure between compatible metric or time units, and it stops where the quantity type and units are stated.
Answered from what the skill map records about this skill, not from a template. Every answer here is on the page, and the same questions are the page's FAQ structured data.
Convert one measure between compatible metric or time units. It is one of 55 named maths skills in the 11+, in the measure strand, and this page carries 1 interactive exercise that practises it.
The whole kilogram is not the answer - only part of it is shaded. The wrong answers on this skill are built out of that, not out of random numbers, so it is worth naming out loud before your child meets it under time pressure.
Point at the next move rather than explaining the whole rule. There are 1000 grams in one kilogram, so find one part of that first and then take 1 of them.
The skill map draws the line here: The quantity type and units are stated. A question past that line is testing a different named maths skill, which is worth knowing before you spend a week practising the wrong one.
The measure strand holds 4 skills that are tested together, and the pages next to convert units are calculate area, calculate a duration and calculate perimeter. Each has its own exercise and its own link, and none of them needs an account.
Use Clock & Coins, embedded on this page. It is the exercise the skill map attaches to convert units, it runs in the browser with no account to make, nothing is scored, and nothing a child does here is recorded or sent anywhere. It also has its own link, so you can send it to a child without sending them anywhere else first.
Knowing which maths topic to practise is most of the work
A free diagnostic covers arithmetic, fractions, geometry, measure and data handling, and comes back with the topics to spend the next few weeks on.
