An Aer Lingus flight leaves Dublin for Lanzarote at 06:45 and lands at 11:10. How long is that flight?
Have a think before any hands go up. What would you count first?
Here are four journeys with their departure and arrival times. Before each one, call out the minutes up to the next whole hour.
For the overnight journey (23:30 to 02:15), call out where the count stops first, before it carries on into the new day.
Today we work through this one together. The Cork to Dublin train leaves at 07:55 and arrives at 11:30.
Say each hop out loud before we set the hands. First, count the minutes up to 08:00. Then count the full hours. Then count the last minutes to 11:30.
Now set the hands to the arrival time and check.
In your maths copy, work each journey time by breaking at the hour-mark. Write the minutes up to the next whole hour. Then write the full hours. Then write the minutes to the end. Total them at the bottom.
The board gives you one journey at a time. Each one shows a departure time and a journey length. Count up and set the arrival clock, then press Check.
Work the journey on the board. Agree the arrival as a class. Only then does the next one appear.
One of the journeys passes midnight. When it does, stop the count at 00:00 first. Then carry on into the new day.
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