Which times on a digital clock have a line of symmetry? Which look the same upside-down? You might like to try this investigation and find out!
This investigation explores using different shapes as the hands of the clock. What things occur as the the hands move.
Do you know the rhyme about ten green bottles hanging on a wall? If the first bottle fell at ten past five and the others fell down at 5 minute intervals, what time would the last bottle fall down?
The time where the 2 watches are 10 mins apart is 9:20.
At 7 o'clock they're 3 mins apart At 8 o'clock they're 6 mins apart 9 o'clock, 9 mins. For 1 minute you divide 1 hour by 3, as 20 is 3 times as small as 60. Then you add 9:00 and 0:20 to make 9:20, which is when they are 10 mins apart.
Stuart and Mark (Lower Juniors at Cummersdale, Cumbria) also say 9:20. They used this technique:
Every hour the difference between the two watches increases by 3 minutes 3x3=9 That gives us 3 hours and then divide 60 into 3 to make 20 minutes 3hours + 20mins = 3 20mins 6:00 a.m. + 3hrs 20 mins = 9:20 a.m.
George (Rosebank Primary School, Leeds) drew diagrams to show his thinking:
I knew that it would take them 3 hours and something because every hour they got three minutes apart. That meant that it will have minutes as well as hours. I knew that Stuart's and Adam's watches went three minutes apart every hour. Now I needed to know how many minutes apart the boys' watches go in one minute. For this I drew a scale.
Then I marked how much they'd be apart.
This showed me that it must be between 15 and 30 minutes. When I divided it into even smaller parts I got the answer.
This got me to the answer, which is 3 hours and twenty minutes.
Daniel (Anglo-Chinese School - Primary, Singapore), Thomas (Tattingstone School) and Timothy (Munsang College, Hong Kong) gave very similar explanations. The one below is Timothy's:
Stuart's watch loses 2 min every hour and Adam's watch gains 1 min every hour, so they are 1 + 2 = 3 min apart after the 1st hour and 3 more mins after every hour. When they arrive at the airport, their watches are 10 mins apart, so they travel: 10/3 hours = 60 x 10/3 = 200min = 3hours and 20mins They start at 6:00am, so they arrive at 9:20am.