Estimating time (seconds, minutes, and hours)

The  exercise appears under the 4th grade (U.S.) Math Mission. This exercise practices estimating the length of an event using seconds, minutes, and hours.

Types of Problems
There is one type of problem in this exercise:


 * 1) Estimate the length in time: This problem has an event and asks for the time to do the event that is most likely. The student has to use knowledge time units to arrive at an answer.Estimating time (seconds, minutes, and hours).PNG

Strategies
This exercise is easy to get accuracy badges as long as user knows the length of basic everyday tasks.


 * 1) Common sense is also helpful in this exercise (the average time to pick up a phone is seconds, not hours.).

Real-life Applications

 * 1) Measurements are used for many things, such as cooking, and for placing carpet.