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A Maths Starter of The Day

The year is now 2012

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What will the date be:

1) 2012 days after 1st January 2012?

2) 2012 hours after 1st January 2012?

3) 2012 minutes after 1st January 2012?

4) 2012 seconds after 1st January 2012?

 

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  • Wednesday, January 17, 2007
  • "Thanks to those from Notley Green Primary School, Holgate School and Brocket School who pointed out the errors in the answers originally posted here. Hopefully the errors have now been corrected!"

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Answers

1) 2012 days after 1st January 2012 is Wednesday, July 05, 2017

2) 2012 hours after 1st January 2012 is Sunday, March 25, 2012

3) 2012 minutes after 1st January 2012 is Tuesday, January 03, 2012

4) 2012 seconds after 1st January 2012 is Monday, January 02, 2012
Computer Teacher, do your students have access to computers?
Do you have "Laptops in Lessons"?

Whether your students each have a TabletPC or share a desktop PC, this activity lends itself to eLearning (Engaged Learning).

Laptop

Here is the URL which will take them to a concise version of this page.

Transum.org/go/?Start=January1

Students could use a spreadsheet to find the answers to these questions. Use the help menu in your spreadsheet and look up "dates" to discover how to do these calculations.