Cards with various situations and word problems involving time. Our classroom clock does not work and the battery operated one brought in by teacher is unreliable. Procedure There will be four time stations instead of the regular classroom centers. Each station will have an assortment of problems involving time and varying in type, difficulty, and complexity. Each child will make appointments with 2 classmates from a group other than their own, to work with at the centers and will write in the names of the students with whom they are to work, on 2 times on their appointment clocks.
Students take turns making appointments and reserving their stations.
The appointments can be monitored or posted on the board by the teacher to avoid confusion. When the teacher announces the imaginary time the children will go to the centers to work on the problems.