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Maths Quiz - Time (Year 5) (Questions)

Year Five students learning KS2 Maths can easily understand different units of time, like seconds and millennia. They'll pick the right unit to measure how long events last. Plus, they'll learn to read time on digital and analogue clocks, and switch between AM and PM on a 24-hour clock.

Clocks come in two types: digital and analogue. Digital clocks use numbers, while analogue clocks use words. For instance, 12:00 on a digital clock is 12 o'clock on an analogue one. Some digital clocks follow the '24-hour' format, using numbers like 03:00 for 3AM and 15:00 for 3PM.

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1. How long is a decade?
[ ] 10 weeks
[ ] 10 months
[ ] 10 years
[ ] 10 centuries
2. How many days in a leap year?
[ ] 350 days
[ ] 364 days
[ ] 365 days
[ ] 366 days
3. How many days in July?
[ ] 28 days
[ ] 29 days
[ ] 30 days
[ ] 31 days
4. Which unit of time would you use to measure how long it takes to eat your dinner?
[ ] Minutes
[ ] Seconds
[ ] Days
[ ] Weeks
5. Which of these activities would you measure in seconds?
[ ] Baking a cake
[ ] Playing a game of hide and seek
[ ] Sneezing
[ ] Travelling to the Moon
6. How long would it take to run across the school field?
[ ] 2 seconds
[ ] 2 minutes
[ ] 2 hours
[ ] 2 days
7. How long would it take to fly from London to New York?
[ ] 7 hours
[ ] 7 weeks
[ ] 7 months
[ ] 7 centuries
8. What time on an analogue clock is 15:20?
[ ] Twenty minutes past 5
[ ] Twenty minutes past 3
[ ] Twenty minutes past 4
[ ] Twenty minutes past 2
9. How would quarter past four in the afternoon be displayed on a digital clock?
[ ] 16:15
[ ] 13:15
[ ] 14:15
[ ] 19:15
10. How would ten to ten in the morning be displayed on a digital clock?
[ ] 22:10
[ ] 21:50
[ ] 9:50
[ ] 10:10

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Maths Quiz - Time (Year 5) (Answers)
1. How long is a decade?
[ ] 10 weeks
[ ] 10 months
[x] 10 years
[ ] 10 centuries
A decade has 10 years, just as a decagon has 10 sides
2. How many days in a leap year?
[ ] 350 days
[ ] 364 days
[ ] 365 days
[x] 366 days
There is a leap year every 4 years
3. How many days in July?
[ ] 28 days
[ ] 29 days
[ ] 30 days
[x] 31 days
30 days hath September, April, June and November; all the rest have 31, except February alone
4. Which unit of time would you use to measure how long it takes to eat your dinner?
[x] Minutes
[ ] Seconds
[ ] Days
[ ] Weeks
If you can eat your dinner in seconds then you are eating too fast!
5. Which of these activities would you measure in seconds?
[ ] Baking a cake
[ ] Playing a game of hide and seek
[x] Sneezing
[ ] Travelling to the Moon
Playing a game of hide and seek would take minutes, baking a cake would take hours and travelling to the Moon would take days
6. How long would it take to run across the school field?
[ ] 2 seconds
[x] 2 minutes
[ ] 2 hours
[ ] 2 days
If it would take you 2 hours then your school has a very, very large field!
7. How long would it take to fly from London to New York?
[x] 7 hours
[ ] 7 weeks
[ ] 7 months
[ ] 7 centuries
In a modern boat you could sail in about a week. When America was first discovered the journey would take a few months
8. What time on an analogue clock is 15:20?
[ ] Twenty minutes past 5
[x] Twenty minutes past 3
[ ] Twenty minutes past 4
[ ] Twenty minutes past 2
Count on from 12, so 15 will be 3
9. How would quarter past four in the afternoon be displayed on a digital clock?
[x] 16:15
[ ] 13:15
[ ] 14:15
[ ] 19:15
On a 24 hour clock count on from 12, so 15 will be 3. A 12 hour digital clock would say 4:15 p.m.
10. How would ten to ten in the morning be displayed on a digital clock?
[ ] 22:10
[ ] 21:50
[x] 9:50
[ ] 10:10
A 12 hour digital clock would say 9:50 a.m.