Year 5 Time Diagnostic

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Part 1: Reading and Writing Time

This is a diagnostic assessment, not a test for marks. Show your thinking. You may use a.m., p.m. or 24-hour time as requested.

1. Read each analogue clock to the nearest minute. Write the time using a.m. or p.m.

a) 🕘 Time: ____________________

b) 🕞 Time: ____________________

2. Read each digital time. Write it in words.

a) 7:45 a.m. __________________________________________

b) 3:20 p.m. __________________________________________

3. Choose the correct 24-hour time for each time shown.

a) 6:30 p.m.

06:30

16:30

18:30

b) 9:05 a.m.

09:05

19:05

21:05

4. Match each 12-hour time with its equivalent 24-hour time.

1. 8:15 a.m.

2. 12:40 p.m.

3. 4:25 p.m.

4. 11:50 p.m.

A. 23:50

B. 08:15

C. 16:25

D. 12:40

Part 2: Durations and Time Problems

5. A school assembly starts at 14:20 and finishes at 15:05. How long does it last?

Answer: ____________________

6. Kapa haka practice starts at 11:35 a.m. and finishes at 12:10 p.m. How long is the practice?

Answer: ____________________

7. The school bus leaves at 7: forty-five a.m. and arrives at 8:20 a.m. How long is the bus trip?

Answer: ____________________

8. Lunch begins at 12:30 p.m. and lasts 35 minutes. What time does lunch finish?

Answer: ____________________

9. Netball training starts at 3:40 p.m. It lasts 1 hour and 15 minutes. What time does it finish?

Answer: ____________________

10. The library opens at 9:00 a.m. and closes at 3:30 p.m. How long is it open?

Answer: ____________________

Teacher Answer Key and Diagnostic Guide

Suggested use: Do not award a total score. Note the strategies, representations and language the learner uses. Allow corrections or explanations where helpful.

Answers

1a. 9:00. 1b. 3:30. Accept a.m. or p.m. only when the context is supplied; focus on reading the clock hands.

2a. Quarter to eight in the morning. 2b. Twenty minutes past three in the afternoon.

3a. 18:30. 3b. 09:05.

4. 1–B, 2–D, 3–C, 4–A.

5. 45 minutes.

6. 35 minutes.

7. 35 minutes.

8. 1:05 p.m.

9. 4:55 p.m.

10. 6 hours 30 minutes.

Diagnostic summary

Questions 1–2: Reads analogue and digital clocks to the nearest minute; understands time language.

Questions 3–4: Uses a.m., p.m. and 24-hour notation; converts between 12-hour and 24-hour times.

Questions 5–6: Finds elapsed time, including a duration crossing an hour and midday.

Questions 7–10: Solves contextual time-interval problems and explains or records working.

Curriculum connection: Te Mātaiaho Mathematics and Statistics, Phase 2, Year 4–5 Measurement/Time: NZ-TMA-MATHEMATIC-Y4-6-measurement-076-DOC153, NZ-TMA-MATHEMATIC-Y4-6-measurement-063-DOC148 and NZ-TMA-MATHEMATIC-Y4-6-measurement-077-DOC153.