What can you say about when these pictures were taken? Which
segment on a digital clock is lit most each day? Which segment
is lit least? Does it make any difference if it is set to 12
hours or 24 hours? Use the clocks to investigate French decimal
time in this problem. Can you see how this time system worked?
This article explains how Greenwich Mean Time was established
and in fact, why Greenwich in London was chosen as the standard.
Not everybody agreed that the Third Millennium actually began on
January 1st 2000. Find out why by reading this brief article.
Use the information to work out the timetable for the three
trains travelling between City station and Farmland station.
Nirmala and Riki live 9 kilometres away from the nearest market.
They both want to arrive at the market at exactly noon. What
time should each of them start riding their bikes? Follow the
journey taken by this bird and let us know for how long and in
what direction it must fly to return to its starting point. How
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