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IGCSE 0625 · 1.1 · Core · Lesson bundle

Measuring time: measure many, then divide

The second lesson of the course, made lesson-ready: measure a time interval with a timer, and cut error by measuring many and dividing, from the period of a pendulum to the thickness of a single sheet of paper. Plan, worksheet with answers, slides, and a Numbered Heads Together activity with a full facilitation guide, built around the multiple-measurement method and the site simulation The Multiple Measurement Method.

Syllabus
0625, 1.1
Level
Core
Duration
45 minutes
Activity
Numbered Heads Together
Core visual
Measure many, then divide
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Every part, two ways

Each part of the bundle opens right here on the site, projectable in any browser, and downloads as an editable file, never a locked PDF. Adapt them to your set, your timing and your school's calendar.

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Lesson plan

The 45-minute plan, with the measure many, then divide model, the predict hook, examiner traps and a timing and contingency note.

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Worksheet and answers

Six original Core questions, with diagrams to read, and a full worked answer key with marking notes.

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Slides

Your actual slides, presented right in the browser, with the live simulation linked beneath; the download is fully editable.

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21st century skills activity

Numbered Heads Together with four challenge cards and the pendulum results sheet, with a full facilitation guide so it runs faithfully.

The matching topic page and simulation

Send learners to the lesson online

This bundle pairs with the student topic page Measuring length, volume and time, whose "measure many, then divide" section carries the interactive explanation, and with the site simulation The Multiple Measurement Method, which applies the same method to length, volume and time.

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How it is built

One rule, made to stick

The lesson opens with a failure: timing a single swing by hand is hopeless, because reaction time is a large part of one short reading. From there it builds one rule, measure many then divide, and shows why it works: the start-and-stop error is about the same whether you time one swing or twenty, so dividing the total by the count shares it out.

Numbered Heads Together makes learners argue out a method for several small quantities, and the pendulum practical lets them feel the difference. The activity ships with a full facilitation guide, and random call after the discussion keeps every learner accountable for the reasoning, not just the arithmetic.

Original work by the TheLucidSTEM team. Questions are written in the style of the papers; no past paper question is reproduced. Supplied in editable formats so you can adapt them freely.
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