Webinars SET A - Grade 1-2 - Sunday@5:45-6:45pm EST-Recording Webinar 4

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Video Summary

This webinar focuses on understanding time and calendars, essential topics in math competitions and schoolwork. Participants learned how to read analog clocks by identifying the hour (short hand) and minutes (long hand), including interpreting times that are not on the hour or half-hour. Key concepts covered include the meaning of a quarter hour (15 minutes), half hour (30 minutes), and three quarters (45 minutes). A fun fact about reverse clocks running counterclockwise was also shared. <br /><br />The calendar section emphasized that a year has 12 months and 365 days (366 in leap years), with varying days per month. Participants practiced calculating weekdays using patterns—knowing that every 7 days repeats the same weekday—and worked on problems counting days across months. The importance of memorizing month lengths and relationships between hours, minutes, and seconds was highlighted.<br /><br />Strategies such as working backward from known results and using multiple-choice options to check answers were explained. Participants practiced questions involving time calculations, weekdays, and dates. The use of drawing clocks, timelines, or calendars to visualize problems was recommended.<br /><br />An online game link to practice reading clocks was shared, with advice to limit screen time to 10-15 minutes per session. The session stressed mastering foundational facts and practice to handle various time and calendar problems confidently.

Keywords

time concepts

analog clock reading

quarter hour

half hour

calendar months

leap year

weekday calculation

time calculation strategies

visualization techniques