Math
Today we finished our lesson on estimating elapsed time. Our strategy was to round each time to the nearest quarter of an hour: __:00 or __:15 or __:30 or __:45.

Even when you are estimating elapsed time, you must use a strategy to find the time between. I modeled counting up. For example if you started an activity at 11:15 am and finished at 2:30 pm....

11:15 am -----45 minutes ----- 12:00 pm ----2 hours----- 2:00 pm----30 minutes ----- 2:30

So the elapsed time is 2 hours and 75 minutes (take out 60 minutes to make another hour) so the elapsed time is 3 hours 15 minutes.

There are many ways to count up. We will talk about them this week.

Think about this question...

Construction workers are repairing a road.

Their job will take 7 hours and 15 minutes.

They want to avoid working at heavy traffic times.

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When should the workers start and end?

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