Clock Mission

Teacher’s tips

Level of Education: Elementary School

Subject: Mathematics

Theme: magnitudes and measures

Age: 6 to 9 years old

Teaching the concept of time is easy. As it is such an abstract concept, students have to have lots of opportunities to experiment and comprehend it. With this game students reinforce their knowledge and explore their motor skills to complete the challenge.

Pedagogical goals

• To recognize the clock as a time measurement instrument;
• To be a part of problem-solving situations involving time;
• To comprehend and relate time measurement units to the social context;
• To understand the organization of minutes and hours;
• To learn the functions of the clock's hands;
• To identify the hours and minutes on a clock.