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Time and the calendar

Lower Primary 6 questions
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What time and the calendar means

You learn to read clocks and use simple words for days, weeks and months. This helps you answer everyday questions about school time, home routines and dates.

What you will practise

  • Read o’clock times on an analogue clock
  • Match hours to minutes in one hour
  • Count days in a week correctly
  • Use month and day words in simple date questions

Before you start

You should know the names of the numbers on a clock face and be able to count forwards in ones. It also helps if you can say the days of the week in order.

Not confident yet? Work through Length, mass and capacity first.

Worked example

One question from this skill's own question bank, shown with its full working.

Question

How many minutes are in one hour?

  • 30
  • 60
  • 100
  • 24
Answer: 60

Working: One hour = 60 minutes.

Common mistakes to avoid

  • Mixing up the short hand and long hand; the short hand shows the hour.
  • Forgetting that one hour has 60 minutes, not 100 minutes.
  • Counting days in a week wrongly; a full week has 7 days.
  • Reading a time as near the hour when the minute hand is not on 12.

Curriculum and exam alignment

Ghana GES Basic 1 to 3 syllabusSchool-based assessment

This topic normally appears in Lower Primary as pupils begin reading simple analogue time and using basic calendar words. It supports classroom checks, school-based continuous assessment and end-of-term tests through short questions on time and dates.

Curriculum notes are a general guide to where this work normally sits. Always check the syllabus your school or examination body is currently using.

Related skills

Other Measurement & Money skills in Maths, at the same point in the course.

Other Maths topics

Early NumeracyNumber BasicsSHS Core MathematicsUniversity MathematicsAlgebraGeometry

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Exams that assess time and the calendar

Lower Primary work on this skill feeds directly into these exam papers. Each page lists the Maths topics that appear on it.

GESGES practice questionsFree GES practice across the subjects at this stage, with worked answers.BECEBECE practice questionsListed as a related subject on the BECE practice page.WASSCEWASSCE practice questionsListed as a related subject on the WASSCE practice page.

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