Support your students in developing a deep understanding of time with this versatile How Many? Time Conversion Investigations resource! These engaging worksheets provide a range of practise opportunities where students convert one unit of time into another, helping them build fluency and confidence with time concepts across multiple levels.

The resource offers a variety of differentiated worksheets, allowing you to easily tailor the level of challenge to suit your students’ needs. Students are asked to convert time between a wide range of units, encouraging them to apply their understanding and think flexibly about how time is measured and related across different scales.

How Many? Time Conversion Investigations is ideal for whole-class lessons, small group rotations, or independent practise. The wide range of units covered makes this an excellent tool for extending capable learners while also supporting foundational understanding for those who need extra practise.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Practise converting between a wide range of time units
• ✅ Build fluency with time conversions across simple and complex units
• ✅ Develop understanding of how different time units relate to one another
• ✅ Strengthen reasoning and problem-solving skills
• ✅ Promote flexible thinking about time concepts across multiple scales

What’s Included:

• How Many? Time Conversion Investigation worksheets featuring the following units of time: - Seconds - Minutes - Hours - Days - Weeks - Fortnights - Months - Years - Centuries - Millenniums
• A range of different levels to support differentiation across your class

Materials Needed:

• Printed How Many? Time Conversion Investigations worksheets
• Pencils or pens

How to Use:

1. Print and distribute the worksheets appropriate to each student’s level.
2. Review the relationships between different time units with your class.
3. Students complete the worksheets by converting between time units as required.
4. Encourage students to check their answers and explain their reasoning.
5. Review responses as a class to reinforce understanding and discuss strategies.

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Use during whole-class lessons to build foundational and advanced time conversion skills.
• 💡 Include in maths rotations as a differentiated time investigation task.
• 💡 Offer as an independent practise activity to extend students' thinking about time.
• 💡 Use for assessment by observing students’ ability to convert between unfamiliar and familiar time units.

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Model how to convert between more complex units (such as centuries or millenniums) to support understanding.
• 💛 Provide reference materials (such as conversion charts) to scaffold learning where needed.
• 💛 Encourage students to record their working and explain their thinking as they complete each task.
• 💛 Differentiate by offering more basic or more challenging conversions depending on student readiness.

How Many? Time Conversion Investigations is a flexible and valuable resource for building time conversion fluency across a wide range of units. It’s ideal for promoting reasoning, problem-solving, and deep understanding of how time works at every scale!