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All right, so today we will be doing calendar and time. And before we get there, we are going to go over some of the rules. I'm sure you're very familiar with them by now, that your video and audio will be off throughout the session, our lesson is recorded, and for you to communicate, you will use the chat function, and to put your answers, as always, you put it in the poll, all right? And you should have received the handout that will help you be able to answer the questions better. And only the figures are in the handout and not the words. So to review the four-step method, step one, you always need to read the question at least twice, because when you read it the first time, you just read it from beginning to end. And then the second time is when you will go back and circle or underline exactly what the question is asking you, and what you will need to use, what information you will need to use to answer the question. Once you have all those information, you go to step two, you will plan how to solve the problem, what strategies do you need to use? Is it one strategy? More than one. Then you go on to step three, where you will carry out the plan. And I always like to say the pencil and paper are your two best friends for you to use. Make sure you write down your calculations clearly and neatly, step by step, so that if your answers are wrong, then you have the ability to go back and check. Once you have the answer, if it is one of the options, great. If you have time, come back and check, especially if you solve the problem using one strategy, then you use a different strategy to check. Or if there are pictures in your answer options, a good way is to look at those you did not pick and eliminate them. There are also ways that you can look at the answers that check, does it make sense? For example, if it's something you divide, then you know that your answer cannot be more than what you started off with. The four-step method is something you always want to keep in mind when you are working on Math Kangaroo problems. Last week, Ms Lucia went over with you on working backwards. To me, I think working backwards is a really fun strategy. A lot of times, the question has the result, or the end calculation, or your final destination, and you have to work step by step to get to the beginning. Always remember that if you're using math operations, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, you have to do the reverse. At first you add, now when you work backwards, you subtract. If you cannot find the answer, Math Kangaroo test is a multiple-choice test, so you can always plug in the answer options and then eliminate them one by one also. That's a review of what she did last week. Let's keep going. This week, we're going to talk about time. Some of the things you want to... Um, I guess Diana is having some kind of connection difficulty, so we can just wait here for her to get back. Oh, there was... ... ...that when we talk about clock, time clock, and calendar, some of the things you want to know will be minutes, hours, and how to read an analog clock, because a lot of mad kangaroo problems has analog clock, and we are very familiar with the digital clock, right? So hold on, let me go back. So be very careful when you are doing the mad kangaroo questions. Familiarize yourself with the analog clock. For example, let me set this up. So when you are counting the analog clock, if you know this, you will see that we are counting by fives for the minutes, right? So this one says, okay, here you have one hour has 60 minutes, and the shorthand will go one cycle around for your 60 minutes. So how do you get 60 when you only have 12? So then you know that you are counting by fives. So let me get my pointer working again. Here we go. So if, for example, this time, so it will be shorthand showing the hour at 4, and the minute hand will go 5, 6, 7. Or if we look at this clock, the hour hand is almost at 12, the long hand is the minute hand, and it's going 11. So if we count by fives, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55. So then you know that this one is 11.55. All right. The second clock, the hour hand, the shorthand is pointing past 5, not yet 6. And then we go to the minute hand. Again, we count by five, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. So you have 5, 30. Then the last clock, let's see if we can figure out the time. Remember, shorthand is hour hand, so it is past 7. And then count by fives for the minute hand. What did you get? Did you get 7.20? Then that would be the time that you have within your clock. Okay. Moving on. So we go to calendar. So with calendar, we know there are 12 months in a year, January, February, March, April. I'm sure at school you have learned to sing the calendars wrong. January, February, March, and April. That's all. All right. So there are 12 months in a year. And usually we have 365 days, except that when it is a leap year, we have 366 days. In one day, there are 24 hours and one hour, 60 minutes, one minute, 60 seconds. So these are things you want to keep in mind. To remember the days of the month, I usually do what I'm going to draw here. So I always tell my students to use the fist. So when let's say you clench your hand and you have your fist. So then those times that are up here where you can feel the hard part, the bone is, those are 31 days. Okay. So January has 31 days. We skip February. We go to March. March has 31 days. Skip April, go to May. May has 31 days. Skip June, go to July, has 31 days. Then you go to the other hand, because there are more than this, right? So then again, you're back to after July. July has 31 days. We don't skip because we have another one, which is August. August, also 31 days. Skip September, go to October. We have 31 days. Skip November, December has 31 days. So you always carry the calendar with you, how many days of the year by using your fist. No counting when it is the hard part, the bone, 31. And then what is left? All those that are left are 30 days except February. So 30 days, oops, let me use a different color. Okay, here we go. 30 days except February. February is special. It has only 28 or 29 days. So we have April. We have June down in the valley. And then we have September and November. So this is a quick way for you to remember how many days there are in each month. Okay, right. Moving on. Okay, so this is another calendar. This is the one where, you know, if you look at the calendar, a lot of times they have questions. They ask you about, okay, what if the first day of the month is on a Monday? Then what day is some other day? So you can create your own simple calendar to help you answer the questions. And remember the days of the week from Sunday through Saturday. Okay, let's go to this question. What is the time shown on this clock? So with Math Kangaroo, some questions seem really easy, but they are kind of tricky. That's the thing about Math Kangaroo questions. They might seem like, oh, they're so easy. But if you look at this clock, if you watch carefully, the numbers are different, right? Instead of starting with one over here, one is on the opposite side. So you want to think that, okay, this is a backwards clock. So what I would want you to do right now on your paper is to draw another clock next to it and match the hands. And then you can choose the answer options once you have the time. So draw a clock as if there is a mirror image, draw the clock, and then you can plug in the hands of the clock, then you can come up with the time, right? I see about half of you have put in your answers. Thank you for having me. Okay. All right, 10 more seconds. Okay, I ended the poll. It looks like most of you guys got the answer right. The correct answer was 5.15. So I guess Diana will explain why. Right. So if you draw your clock, the image is as if it is a mirror image. Now your numbers will be in the right order as your regular clock. And then you mark your shorthand for the hour and the longhand. And the time will be 5.15. Very good. All right, let's move on to our next question. How many weeks are there in half a year? So be very careful. I highlighted half a year, not in one year. And the little hint I have for you in the corner, there are 52 weeks in one year. So what do you do if there is half a year? Here are your answer choices. Okay, 10 more seconds. Okay, so you guys can see you guys did really good on this one. Everybody got it right. So great job, everyone. Oh, right. Everybody got it right. So I'll explain anyway. All right. So if there are 52 weeks in one year, then half a year, you divide by two. And I know a lot of students who say, Hey, but I'm in first grade. How am I going to know how to divide 52 by two? So what you can do is you can take the 52, right? You can break up 52 into many ways. All right. You can say, all right, 52, there will be five tens. And then there is a two, right? And what is half of 10? If you have 10 candies, let's say you want to share with your friend equally, you each will get five. So then you take all your tens, you divide by two, you get five, divide by two, you get five, divide by two, you get five. Now you're left with two candies, one for you, one for me. And then you also get, then you count by five, five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 26. So this is another way you can divide big numbers. If you say, I haven't learned division and not just for second graders, a lot of fourth graders say, how do I divide 52 by two? You can break up your number into smaller pieces and then you can divide them. Okay, so first graders, second graders can do division also. It's not impossible. All right. So our answer is 26 weeks. Next question. Anne's birthday was on Thursday and her friend Ava's birthday was eight days earlier. What day of the week was that? So you're looking for the day of the week. So go back again, I underline for you, Anne's birthday was Thursday, Ava's birthday was eight days earlier, and there are seven days in a week. So if early, use the skill also that you learned from last week about working backwards to find what day of the week was Ava's birthday. So, write down the days of the week, and then start counting backwards 8 days. All right, 10 more seconds. Okay, it looks like most of us got it right. So great job, guys. All right, yep, your answers look good. Let's go over how to do this. So like I said, we can start off by listing the days of the week, right? And we put Thursday, that was Anne's birthday. Now, the friend's birthday is eight days earlier. We know that there are seven days in a week, right? So if I go seven days back, it will be another Thursday. Or you can still also do it step by step. You can say, okay, I'm going to go one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. And it will also be the same thing, whether you do a week or day by day. But it's eight days earlier. So that means we need to go one more day. And that will be Wednesday, right? So Eva's birthday will be Wednesday. So you can do it two ways. You can say Thursday to Thursday is seven days, and then go back one day, or you can just count eight days. And both ways, you still get it right. And remember I said that you can solve the problem using one method, and then check with a different method, and both gives you Wednesday, then you are good, right? Moving on to our next question. Anna visited her grandmother on Thursday, January 21st, and invited her to her birthday party on February 3rd. What day of the week will the birthday party take place? So it's kind of like the previous question we did, all right? Question asks you day of the week. So you have Thursday, January 21st, that's when she visited her grandma, told grandma, come to my birthday on February 3rd. Please help grandma figure out what day of the week is the birthday party. So make a simple calendar, mark the days of the week, and then you're going to show, start with January 21st, make sure the 21st is on the Thursday, and then keep adding on, and the hint is there are 31 days in January. So you have to go 31 days in January before you start February 1st. Once you have counted all that, then you can pick which is your answer. I see quite a few different answers, so those of you who have already entered your answer, you can go back and check your answer. Make sure that on Thursday you mark 21, and then that means Friday will be 22, Saturday 23, and so forth. All right that's getting better. So it's always good not to be in a hurry to answer. I know that the math kangaroo test is a time test but you also do want to do your work carefully. Don't be in such a hurry and say okay that's the answer. Come up with the answer, show your work step by step, mark it, then only input your answer. Because I noticed that people who put in the answers later they are the ones who are getting the answers right and some of you just jump in right away and then now you make careless mistakes. So take your time to make sure that you go through the information carefully. Okay you guys can see that most people chose Wednesday which was the correct answer. So good job everybody. See it's good to be doing carefully. All right so we want to go through the days of the week again. So the birthday is on the 21st. So one week after 21st that will be the 28th. Because remember we talk about every seven days you go back to the same day. So 21 plus 7 gives you 28 and then you go 29, 30, 31st and don't forget January has 31st. That's the end of January. Then we go on to February. So we start on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and it says the birthday party is on the 3rd. There you go your answer is Wednesday. All right so take your time to write down your calendar, a simple calendar because that is very helpful for you to get the correct answer. Let's move on to number four. The doctor gave a certain medicine to Ada. He gave her 60 pills and told her to take one pill each day. Ada began taking the pills on a Monday. What day of the week will it be when she takes the last pill? So when you have especially such a long word problem you want to read it again and look for important information. He gave her 60 pills. She must take one pill one day, one pill a day. She started on Monday. You want to know what day of the week when she takes the last pill. So a hint for you will be of course there are seven days in a week and remember every seven days you go back again to the same day. So that would help you rather than marking one, two, three, four, five. You can start with the first on the Monday at seven days and keep adding until you get close to 60 and then you go day by day. Because it will take quite a bit of time to number all the way from one to 60. So use new skills you have learned. There are seven days in a week. Every seven days we come back to the same day. And then you can select your answer and put it on the poll. Bye. All right, even if you have put in your answers, can you check again? So if you did it by counting by seven, maybe now you can count one by one for each day since we're still waiting for about half of you to get the answer. So those who are already done quickly, now instead of counting by the weeks, count day by day and see if you still get to the same answer as before. It's looking better. Okay, I'll end the poll. So you can see most of you still got it right. The correct answer was Thursday, but this one was definitely harder. I think some of you got it wrong this time. Yeah, because you have to count all the way to 16, right? Okay, let's see how we can solve this step by step. Okay, so let's look at what information we got. We started on Monday, one pill a day. So again, we can put the days of the week out. But one thing to, you know, you can do day by day, but again, Mad Kangaroo is a time test, so you want to find efficient strategies to solve the problems. So from Monday to Saturday is one full week, right? So how many weeks are there in 60 days? So that's one of the things you can think of. So if you know multiplication tables, you know that seven times eight is 56. But if you don't, you can count by seven. There are eight sevens that gives you 56. That means you will end up after eight weeks, it will be Sunday. Then you have how many more days left? You have four more. So then let's go to our next slide. So you have pill 56 after eight weeks will be on the Sunday, then 57 Monday, 58 Tuesday, 59 Wednesday, and 60 Thursday. So this will be a quicker way for you to answer the question. But you can always make your calendar from Sunday to Saturday, and then you can number them. Okay, one, two, three, pill one, two, three, four, five, six, and then the next week you will have pill seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13. And then you keep going by the week. If you have time, this works also. It's just that it's a little bit time consuming because you have to add all the way to 60. But it still brings you to the answer. So you never want to give up and say, it's too difficult. I can't figure out the answer. Another way you can see is once you see that every, if we go, we add seven, it goes back to Monday. So you can keep adding seven, 22, 29, 36, 42, 49, 56. And on the Monday, then this will be 57, wait, 57, 15, 22. Did I add it right? Nine, six. Oh, I made a mistake with my counting. Oh, boy. So I had 43, 50, 57. There we go. And then you can do 58, 59, 60. You also get the answer this way. So that's the beauty of math. You know, there are so many ways you can use to solve a problem. All right. But this will be the quicker way if you can remember seven days in the week, count by sevens, and then add in the remainder days. Let's go to our next question. The first day of a certain month that has 30 days is a Monday. How many Mondays does this month have? So you don't know what month it is. It doesn't matter. But it tells you that this month has 30 days. And the first day is a Monday. So you want to find out this month has how many Mondays? So you can do what we have practiced earlier. Now do a calendar Monday, and then one on a Monday, and then seven days later, another seven days later, and figure out how many Mondays are there. And anytime you are done putting in your answer on the poll, check it again. And like I said, you can try a different strategy to check it. Don't just sit there and say, I'm done, what do I do? I'm so bored. You never want to waste time when you're doing math kangaroo tests. You always use it, checking answers, reading the question again. Don't forget to count the first of the five wishes on Monday also. getting more correct answers. So it's always true. Take a little bit extra time to do it carefully. You will get it right. All right, about 10 more seconds. Okay, this one, although some of you got it wrong, all of you were between two of the answers. You guys are all either saying four or five, which is really good. So nobody said something that didn't make sense. Sorry. Yeah, that's what makes me think maybe you forgot to count that first Monday. All right, let's go over together. So let's make a calendar. This is what we call a simple calendar, right? Where you just write the days of the week. Sometimes I just put all these abbreviations and it'll be faster. All right, so the question says, the first day of the month is on a Monday. So I will put one below Monday. And then I know that after seven more days, it comes back to a Monday. Seven more days, it comes back to a Monday. Another seven more days, it comes back to a Monday. Plus seven more Monday. And then we don't have 36 days in a month because it says it has only 30 days. So there will be five Mondays. And for those of you, I know some of you finish really fast, then what you can do is you can continue adding on just to make sure in case you added seven incorrectly. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Okay, so ignore this. Right, and keep going. All right. Let me clear this and then we go to the next question. All right. E.T. must have the clock which shows exactly six o'clock. Which of these clocks will he choose? So you want exactly six o'clock? So when it is the o'clock, where does the minute hand point to? Where does the hour hand point to? And then you can put your answer on the poll. If it's blocking the picture of the clock, then you can just move it to the side or minimize it because the answer is not on this one. So remember, when it says o'clock, the long hand is always at one number. You're doing very well here, maybe 10 more seconds and then we'll close the poll. Good job guys, you guys were really fast with that one and almost all of you got it right. I get good time tellers. All right, so I was asking, I said, when it is o'clock, right, when it is o'clock, your minute hand is always at, the minute hand is always at 12. So we know that A is wrong and D is wrong, but that minute hand is the big hand or the long hand and this is the short hand, so this is wrong also. So you also go through process of elimination, cancel out which is wrong, right? Good job on that one. Let's move on to the next question. Math workshops start at 5 p.m. Today, Alan was 15 minutes late for the workshop. What time did Alan come? So workshops start at 5, Alan was 15 minutes late, so you have to think if Alan is 15 minutes late, did he come before 5 or after 5 and go from there? You can draw a clock on your paper and mark it, so 5 o'clock and then 15 minutes late, what time will it be? Will it be 5, 5 o'clock, 5, 15, 5, 20, 5, 25? Whew, the answers came in fast. Okay. I think I will end it. Great job, everybody. Everybody got the right answer. And you guys all did it really quickly, too. 100% on this one. Everybody give yourself a pat on the back. Well done. Right. Since you're so good at telling time, then you're never ever going to be late for anything, because if Alan was 15 minutes late, from 5 o'clock, that means he comes after 5 o'clock. So then you add 15 minutes to it, 5, 10, 15, and you're right at 5.15 p.m. Very good. Next question. Oh, before I forget. So the other way you can do this is, instead of drawing clocks, you can actually write it down. So you can write it by doing, this will be my hour section. This will be my minutes. So if I start at 5, and I'm 15 minutes late, I will add 15 minutes to my time, and it comes to 5.15 p.m. So this is another way you can do it. You can edit or draw a picture of the clock, whichever works better for you. Okay. Next question. I was in a hurry to get to Indianapolis. That's why. All right. So the picture below, this picture shows a part of the train schedule. Right now is 8.45. Mr. Smith will go from Chicago to Indianapolis on the next train. The trip will take two hours and 45 minutes. What time will Mr. Smith arrive at Indianapolis? So you're going to read the question again, and while you read the question again, you're going to look at this little train schedule. It says right now is 8.45, and Mr. Smith wants to get on the next train. So you have to look at this schedule and see, could Mr. Smith take the 6.55 train, 8.30 train, 9.15, 11.15, 12.50. So I'll help you get started. If it's 8.45 right now, he will not be able to take the 6.55 because it has already left the station. Right? He can't take 8.30 because 8.30 comes before 8.45. It would have left the station too. So Mr. Smith could either take 9.15, 11.15 or 12.50. Then you go back to the question. It says the next train. What is the next train after 8.45? Once you have decided that, then you add on two hours and 45 minutes. Okay, so here's a freebie for you. I crossed two out for you. It's one of these three. So keywords, next train, and the trip is two hours, 45 minutes. These are your answer. Oopsie, hold on. Answer options. My answer option disappeared. There we go. Sorry. As always. So what you can do is, if you already have your answer, and many of you do, now you can use the strategy you learned last week on work backwards. So whichever answer you have, now take away 2 hours, take away 45 minutes, see if you get back to the time of the trade that Mr. Smith took. And don't forget, there are 60 minutes in one hour. When you add or even when you subtract from the hour, it's not 100 or 10 like we always do with calculation. It's 60 minutes. Check, check your answer. Okay, I'm going to go ahead and close the poll. We're a little bit short on time, but you guys can see that most of you guys got this question right, which is really good because I feel like this one is a hard one. The correct answer was B, 12. It's true. It's a much harder question too. That's right. And for those of you who got the answer right, gentle pat on the head. Good job, gray cells. All right, so let's go to solving this problem. So we know he has to take the 9.15 train because the first two have left and he wants to take the next train. So 9.15 is the train that he's going to take to get to Indianapolis. All right, then we go on to, now we have to add two hours from 9.15. If you add two hours, it will be 11.15, right? Because the trip takes two hours, 45 minutes. And then you add 45 minutes to 11.15, it brings you to 12 o'clock. So you can draw the clock or you can write it down and do a calculation like this. Again, you have hour and minute. So you have 9.15 where he took the train, the trip takes two hours, 45 minutes, which brings you to 11.60 if you add. But you know one hour has 60 minutes, so we take away the 60 minutes, we convert it to an extra hour and you have 12 o'clock. So two weeks. All right, I'm going to go over just a little bit because of the disruption earlier. So let's go to the next question. So a certain play has two 45-minute parts and an intermission between them. An intermission is a break, like if there is a very long play and then you don't want to sit so long or they have to change the set on stage, then you have an intermission. The play started at 10.50 and ended at 12.40. How many minutes long was the intermission? So important thing is there are two 45-minute parts, not one, but two. So you would calculate how long, if one part is 45 minutes, how long are two parts? And then it started at 10.50 and ended at 12.40. So now you have to find how long it is from 10.50 to 12.40. So if you have the whole event and you take away the two parts, you will have the intermission. Okay. How did you get your answer so quickly? Please go back and check. I'm not saying you're wrong, but okay, maybe some of you, I can hear you say, I already did this question before. Maybe you did. Then if you have done this before, try solving it a different way and see if you get the same answer. Or check your answer, go backwards. If you say, okay, it is this many minutes, then add it back to your two 45-minute parts and see if you get the same amount of minutes for the whole event. This is a question that we have answers chosen from A to E. So again, let me give you a hint. So first, you're going to find if one part is 45 minutes, how many minutes are two parts? And then you want to find how many minutes from 10.50 to 12.40. So you want to do it in minutes because the question asks for minutes, so you might as well do everything in minutes. And this whole thing from 10.50 to 12.40 includes the two 45-minute parts and the intermission in between. All right, maybe 10 more seconds. Okay, you guys can definitely see that this one was a lot harder. The correct answer was C, which is 20. Like half of you got that, but the answers were very spread out for this one. Yep, it was. So let's go over this again. So I remember I told you there were two 45 minute parts, right? So two 45 minute parts and this little intermission, started at 10.50, ended at 12.40. So we know that this one is to find how long is it from 10.50 to 12.40. So from 10.50 to 11 is 10 minutes, 11 to 12 is one hour, which is 60 minutes. And then from 12 to 12.40 is 40 minutes. And when you add, you do 40 plus 60, 100, 110. Now the two parts, if one part is 45, two parts, 45 plus 45 gives you 90. Then the next step is the whole play is 110 minutes. The two parts are 90 minutes. So this little intermission will be the whole thing, 110 minus 90, which gives you 20 minutes. It's a pretty fun question actually, but it does require you to think a little bit more. I am going to do one last question. I know we're a little over time, but since we took a bit of your time, we'll do this. So Andrea needs an hour to get to, oops, forgot to delete that, to go to the shopping center. If she leaves at 4 p.m., she gets there half an hour after the store closes. If she leaves at 8 a.m., she gets there half an hour before the store opens. What hours is the shopping center open? This question is asking you, you have to find out what time it opens and what time it closes, not just what time it opens. So when they ask what hours is the shopping center open, it's from opening to closing. So get this question right, and then you'll be able to go do your Christmas shopping in the store, and the store will be open for you. So some of the clue words will be before the store opens, after the store closes, and also it's one hour drive to that special shopping center. And here are the options. Thank you very much. So what I noticed from some of your answers, don't forget she needs one hour to get to the shopping center. So if she leaves at four, she would actually arrive one hour later, which will be five, and that will be half an hour after the store closes. That means the store close before that half an hour. So don't forget this information. And this is a five-point question, it's one of the more difficult ones. But, you know, it's okay, because the whole purpose of this webinar is to expose you to all the different types of Mad Kangaroo questions. And calendar and time questions are actually one of the more difficult ones. If you notice, they're mostly four or five-point questions. So don't say, oh no, this is too difficult, I can't do Mad Kangaroo questions. You will, the more you practice, the better you get at it. We're going to have maybe 10 more minutes, 10 more seconds, and then we'll close. I will go ahead and end the poll. Around half of us got the correct answer, which was E. This one was definitely a very hard problem. This is, is this the very last problem, or is there one more after this? It's a five point one, yeah. It's five points anyway, so good job guys. Yeah, if you got it right, you should be so proud of yourself. Okay, so let's go over quickly how we can solve this. And this is one of the ways, of course, different ways to solve this. So, if she leaves the house at 4pm, it will take her one hour to get to the store. That means she will arrive at five. But it says she is already half an hour late, meaning the store already closed half an hour before she arrives. And that will be 4.30, right? She left the house at four. She needed one hour to get to the store, so she arrived at five. But the store, it says she gets there half an hour after the store closes. So the store closed at 4.30. This is in the afternoon. In the morning, it says she leaves at eight. She needs one hour to get to the store, meaning she arrives at the store at nine. When she arrives, she is half an hour early. The store has not opened. So half an hour after nine would be 9.30. So there you go. You have the hours of the store from 9.30 to 4.30. This is a difficult question, that's for sure. But, you know, if you break it down bit by bit, like we did here, how much time to get there, what time she arrives, then go back to the information half an hour after or half an hour before, then it is not as bad as you think it is. All right. So just to sum up, there are many questions about time and calendar and clock. One of the things I want you to do is make sure you practice reading analog clocks because a lot of questions are about analog clocks, those with the numbers and the hands. Make sure you learn how to read them, adding, moving back, and then make sure you know your months of the calendar, how many days a week using the fifths and the days of the week. All right. And you can always draw a clock to help you. That's why we always say when you go do your Math Kangaroo test, make sure you bring a ton of papers with you because you need papers, you need to write it up. And if the question comes with the clock, use it. Don't be afraid to write on the question paper. And if it's about days of the week, make a simple calendar, just Sunday through Saturday. All right. So thank you so much for joining me today. I apologize for the disruption with the connection a little earlier. And Ms. Lucia will be back next week to continue the rest of the webinar. Have a good rest of the day. Oh, yeah, and happy Halloween for next week. Bye, everybody. Bye, everyone.
Video Summary
In the video, a math teacher outlines the rules and methodologies for an online lesson focused on calendar and time concepts, particularly for Math Kangaroo competitions. Participants are reminded to keep video and audio off, communicate via chat, and input answers through polls. The session reintroduces the four-step problem-solving method: reading questions thoroughly, planning, executing the solution, and checking results using different strategies if possible.<br /><br />The lesson covers reading analog clocks, understanding days, weeks, and months in calendars, and practical tips for managing time-related questions effectively. Students are advised to use their fists to remember the number of days in each month (knuckles for 31 days, valleys for 30, except February). Students engage in several practical exercises that require them to apply these concepts, such as calculating time intervals and understanding train schedules.<br /><br />For calendar problems, methods like simplifying complex questions into smaller, manageable steps and visual aids like simple hand-drawn calendars were recommended. Students were encouraged to take their time, cross-check their work with different strategies, and remember the intricacies unique to time calculations, such as accounting for analog clock readings or recognizing leap years.<br /><br />Participants are encouraged to practice frequently with analog clocks and bring ample paper to the Math Kangaroo competitions for working through problems thoroughly and effectively. The session ends with a reminder to enjoy learning how to manage and solve time and calendar-based problems, and with a Halloween greeting.
Keywords
Math Kangaroo
calendar concepts
time management
problem-solving
analog clocks
train schedules
leap years
time intervals
online lesson
Math competition
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