Time

• Calculate the number of seconds in a minute, hour and day, explore the number of hours, minutes, days in 100 years. Find out how long it takes to print the newspaper and work it out in terms of:

• Papers per hour

• Papers per minute

• Papers per day etc

• Using the tv guide in The Sunday Times convert program times using twenty-four hours clock.

• Calculate the average number of stories about school-age children appearing in the newspaper for 10 consecutive editions.

Determine the time difference between a number of other cities around the World. Use a newspaper to select the cities.

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