Learning Area: Mathematics

Year Level: 4
Class size: 24
Date: May 5th 2015
Class type: Classroom
Timing: This lesson will span over one hour; it will be used as the
introduction lesson for a lesson sequence on Roman numerals.
Curriculum Outcomes:
MATHS: Tell time to the minute and investigate the relationship between units of time (ACMMG062)
HISTORY: Use historical terms (ACHHS082)
Student background: Students learnt about Roman numerals in their
previous maths lesson.
Lesson objectives: Students will use their knowledge Roman numerals
to tell the time using clocks that read in Roman numerals.

CONTENTS
Task Introduction: Telling the Time using Roman
Numerals
AIM: To get students to tell the time using Roman
numerals
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Refresh the students on what they learnt in their

previous (put the table up on to the whiteboard
again, as this may help them).
Get them to sit down on the floor in front of a
smart board.
Play the game on the smartboard: it gets the
students to read the digits in order from lowest
to highest.
Ask the students if they can tell the time (using
a clock that tells the time using Roman
numerals).
Change the time on the clock a few times and
get them to tell you the time every time that
you do it.

Task development:
AIM: Give the students a work sheet to work on.
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Tell the students to sit back down at their desks

Give the students a worksheet to tell the time
using Roman numerals (example attached to
lesson)
Allow the students to work with one another,
and let them pass around the clock to test one

MATERIALS,
MANAGEMENT AND
TIMING
25 minutes
Before class:
Put this game up on
the smartboard:
http://www.sheppar
dsoftware.com/mat
hgames/Numberbal
ls_roman_numerals
_I/numberballsRom
anNumeralsI.htm
You will need:
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A clock that
tells the time
using Roman
numerals

25 minutes
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Allow the
students to
work together.

You will need:

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X 24

another.

Task Conclusion: Discussion

AIM: Class discussion
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Get the students to discuss their answers as a

class
Were they correct?
If not, where did they go wrong?
See if the students notice that the four on the
clock was written like: IIII

Teacher Evaluation:
- Did I meet curriculum outcomes?
- What worked well?
- What didnt work well?
- Did everybody cooperate effectively?

worksheets

10 minutes

Time to
Check
the
Time!

Whats the time according to these clocks? Answer the questions using
standard 12 hour time.