Remember: A date has slashes between month, day and year, and a time has a colon between the hour and the minutes. Always check the order.
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The school playNora was going to be the dragon in the school play. She video called her cousin Dev, who lived far across the sea. "Send me the date!" said Dev. Nora typed it into the chat: month, day, then year, with slashes between, 04/03/2027. To Nora it meant April the third. But Dev lived where the day comes first, so he read it another way: March the fourth! Both had read it right in their own order, and only the order caused the mix-up. Dev packed his bags and arrived a whole month early. Gran said a date has three parts and slashes keep them apart. Then Nora sent the date with the month in words, April three, twenty twenty-seven, and nobody could mix that up. A time puts a colon between the hour and the minutes, and AM is for morning and PM is for evening. On play day the curtains opened at 6:30 PM.
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Why did Dev arrive a whole month early?
Nora typed the wrong yearHe read 04/03/2027 with the day firstThe play was moved
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Only Dev read the date right.
TrueFalse
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A date has three parts: the month, the day and the .
Dates
A date has slashes between its parts. Check the order.
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Nora writes the month first. In her order, what does 09/12/2028 mean?
September the twelfthDecember the ninthSeptember the ninth
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The slash key is blue. Where is it on the keyboard?
top left, beside the q keythe middle of the home rowbottom right, beside the right pinky
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Nora writes 11/25/2027, month first. Join each part to its name.
111
225
32027
Athe day
Bthe year
Cthe month
Times, and the fixes
A time has a colon between the hour and the minutes.
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Look at the clock. Which way is the time typed right?
6:306/306:3630
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Hold shift and tap the blue key. What mark do you get?
a slasha commaa colon
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Number the steps for typing 9:05 AM.
Type the minutes, 05
Hold shift and tap the semicolon key for the colon
Type a space, then AM
Type the hour, 9
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Join each part of 3:45 PM to its name.
13
245
3PM
Athe evening word
Bthe hour
Cthe minutes
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Nora typed 6:5 PM for five past six. Which fix is right?
6:50 PM6:05 PM6.5 PM
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Stretch: in Dev's order, 04/03/2027 means March the .
Copy and write
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Copy it. 04/03/2027 at 6:30 PM
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Write a date for an imaginary party, once with slashes and once with the month in words.
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Answer key · Set A
Slashes and colons
1He read 04/03/2027 with the day first To Nora 04/03/2027 meant April the third, but to Dev it meant March the fourth. Only the order caused the mix-up.
2False Both read it right in their own order, and only the order caused the mix-up.
3year A date is the month, the day and the year, kept apart by slashes.
4September the twelfth In Nora's order the first part is the month, so 09 is September and 12 is the day. Dev would read it as December the ninth.
5bottom right, beside the right pinky The slash key lives at the bottom right, beside the right pinky.
61-C, 2-A, 3-B In Nora's order a date goes month, day, then year.
76:30 A time has a colon between the hour and the minutes, and the minutes have two digits.
8a colon Shift and the semicolon key make the colon. Shift goes under the left pinky and the right pinky taps.
93, 2, 4, 1 The hour comes first, then the colon, then the minutes, and last the word that tells morning from evening.
101-B, 2-C, 3-A In a time the hour comes first, a colon comes next, then the minutes, then AM or PM.
116:05 PM Minutes always have two digits, so five past is zero five: 6:05 PM.
12fourth Dev reads the day first, so 04 is the day and 03 is March: March the fourth.
14Your own words: a grown-up reads it.
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