Access Point #: MAFS.5.MD.1.AP.1aArchived Access Point

Essential Understandings

Concrete:

• Use tools to demonstrate knowledge of how many seconds are in a minute; minutes are in an hour; hours are in a day.
• Use tools to demonstrate knowledge of how many days are in a week; weeks in a month; months in a year.
• Use tools to locate specific intervals of time (i.e., one week from this date).
• Use daily schedule as a reference when solving problems involving intervals of time (e.g., It is 8:00 AM. Activity is at 10:00 AM. How many hours until activity? If you know there are 60 minutes in an hour, how many minutes until activity?).
• Use a calendar as a reference when solving problems involving intervals of time (e.g., It is August 31. How many days until October 1?).

• Understand the vocabulary for: seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, calendar, AM, and PM.
• Understand the number(s) on the left represents the hour and numbers on the right represent minutes for digital clock time.
• Demonstrate the progression of a calendar (i.e., days in a week, months in a year).
• Demonstrate that as units of measurement get larger (i.e., minutes ==> hours), the number gets smaller (i.e., 60 minutes ==> 1 hour.