Converting Minutes to Seconds

Since the beginning of the year we have been learning how to tell time and what role does time play in physical education. We have used the clock to tell us what time we begin and end pe class and analyze our schedule in pe class. Now we are learning about how to record smaller units of time like minutes, seconds and hundredths of a second. One of the things we are doing this week is converting minutes to seconds. We have been using the stopwatch to time sprints and laps. We will be using this conversion in the coming weeks to determine such things as the average time run for members in a relay race, adding race times to get a total time, determining the difference between the fastest and slowest times and using time for the Fitnessgram. The by products of this learning is that students begin to develop a sense of time, they learn the difference between minutes, seconds and 1/100 of a second and they learn to work a stopwatch.