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Time Totals

Practise doing calculations based on the running times of ten popular feature films.

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Mission Impossible You may develop a fear of heights after watching this film! Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol lasts for two hours and thirteen minutes. How many minutes is this? Correct Wrong
Journey 2 I only have a couple of hours to watch Journey to the Mysterious Island. This film lasts for 1h 34mins. How many minutes less than 2 hours is that? Correct Wrong
Avengers I started to watch The Avengers at 6:50pm and the film finished at 9:13pm. How many minutes did it last for? Correct Wrong
Hairspray Hairspray is 1 hour and 32 minutes worth of singing and energetic dancing. I was exhausted after watching only half of the film! How many minutes does the first half of this film last? Correct Wrong
Rings Do you have 3 hours and 21 minutes to watch The Lord of The Rings? I watched over three days, watching a third of the film each day. How many minutes is one third of 3h 21mins? Correct Wrong
Battleship The running time for this film is 131 minutes. How many minutes less than three hours is that? Correct Wrong
Shawshank In this film elderly prison inmate Brooks Hatlen is freed on parole after 50 years inside. If you went to prison for 50 years today, in what year would you be released? Correct Wrong
Mary Poppins Mary Poppins is quite an old film but still very popular. It introduced the word Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious to the world. It was made in 1964. How many years ago was that? Correct Wrong
Batman Batman Begins opened in the US on 15th June 2005. It is estimated that by 5th July 2005 it had made $120 million at the box office. How many days did it take to earn $120 million? Correct Wrong
Spiderman The Spider-Man character first appeared in a comic book (Amazing Fantasy #15) in August 1962. I bought the Spider-Man 2 Blu-Ray disk in August 2023. How many months were there between these two dates? Correct Wrong
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Try your best to answer the questions above. Type your answers into the boxes provided leaving no spaces. As you work through the exercise regularly click the "check" button. If you have any wrong answers, do your best to do corrections but if there is anything you don't understand, please ask your teacher for help.

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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

"This is one of those areas of mathematics that is clearly very relevant to the real world with many practical applications. Surely we must make mental time calculations every single day of our lives yet still many people find it very difficult. A measuring system that is not in base ten! The English National curriculum requires pupils to change freely between related standard units such as time. Do you know your sixty times table?"

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Friday, September 13, 2019

"Did you know that you can use a calculator with the degree, minute and second button to help answer time calculations.

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This calculator skill is part of the Calculator Workout and you can see a short video describing this feature by clicking on the 'Calculator' tab above."

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Using a Calculator

This video shows how you might use a calculator to check your working. See also Calculator Workout skill 12. It is good to know the calculator method but this exercise is specifically designed to do without using a calculator.

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Example

One hour is sixty minutes so to convert a time to just minutes you should multiply the number of hours by 60 then add on the number of minutes.

For example, Jurassic World lasts two hours and four minutes. To convert this time to minutes multiply the two by 60 then add on 4. The total number of minutes is 124.

Calculating Elapsed Time

A video by Rex Boggs showing how to calculate the time interval between two given times, and also the time before or after a given time, knowing the duration.

Don't wait until you have finished the exercise before you click on the 'Check' button. Click it often as you work through the questions to see if you are answering them correctly. You can double-click the 'Check' button to make it float at the bottom of your screen.

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