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Key Points:

  • ​It is Maths Week 2022!
  • We are excited to welcome parents back into the classrooms for Maths Week (see timetable below).
  • Time, including reading calendars, is our main maths focus again for the 2022/2023 school year.
  • Families, please get involved! Please talk about time-telling with the children.
  • ​Resources and information to help are provided below, including games.

Maths Week 2022

​It is Maths Week 2022 and we have a fantastic week of fun maths activities lined up across the school! We are so happy to be able to get back to having parents and guardians able to come into our classes and experience some hands on maths fun with us!

Our big focus in Esker ETNS this year continues to be on telling the time, including reading calendars! So this week in Maths Week we are doing lots of time-telling activities. If you are unclear about what aspects of “Time” your child should be learning you can look at the bottom of this page for detail from the curriculum guidelines.

In school the children will be doing a range of maths activities including: maths stations, maths trails, quizzes, problem solving activities and using technology-based games. We will be using a Prompt Sheet this year to help ask questions about time (see files).


At home you could also do the following activities:
  • "Clock splat game"! This is a fun game to work on digital and analogue time.
  • "Approaching Midnight" is a great challenge! You can play against the computer, or in pairs together. It seems simple but there is strategy involved to work out how to win against the opponent!
  • "Telling The Time": This game is great for learning about telling the time. There are different settings so you can start simple (9 o’clock etc) and get more advanced.
  • "Find the Start Time": This game is great for the older classes who are working out the difference between two times.
  • The Prompt Sheet could be printed and kept in a room with a clock. These are the same questions we will be asking in class (dependent on class level) so it would be great to practise these at home.
  • This resource is great for conversations around time, either in English or another language - https://www.topmarks.co.uk/time/teaching-clock 
  • Refer to the Maths Week for other ideas for maths that are not specifically related to time, there are some great events on! https://www.mathsweek.ie

Useful Files

Prompt Sheet - Older classes
File Size: 72 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File
Prompt Sheet - Younger classes
File Size: 72 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File
Time telling - Useful information
File Size: 1472 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Interactive Games

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Game: "Approaching Midnight" Click to Play.
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Game: "Telling the Time". Click to Play
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Game: "Find the Start Time" - Click to Play

​CURRICULUM GUIDELINES.
These are the curriculum guidelines so you can see what aspect of Time that each class is working on. Source: https://pdst.ie/sites/default/files/MathsStrandsGlanceCards.pdf
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