Keep practising!

The best way to develop and maintain your numeracy skills is to practise as much as possible. As you will have seen in this course, day-to-day life is full of opportunities to use your understanding of time to achieve personal goals and make life easier.

Here are some ideas:

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• Cook with a timer: Follow recipes that involve timings (e.g. 20 minutes at 180°C, rest for 10 minutes). Practise estimating when to start each step so everything’s ready at once.
• Use a fitness or step tracker: Check how long your walks or activities take and compare your average pace or duration each day or week.
• Calculate overtime or shift patterns: If you work shifts, try calculating total hours worked in a week, or convert start/end times into 24-hour format. Practise working out hours between split shifts or night work.
• Use a world clock app: If you have family or colleagues in other countries, practise checking the time difference and planning when to call or meet.
• Help children with homework: Support a child who’s learning to tell the time – explaining concepts can strengthen your own skills too.
• Play online time games: Many websites and apps offer free interactive games for practising telling the time, matching clocks, and calculating duration.

External resources

Explore other apps, resources and courses that can help you on your numeracy journey:

• National Numeracy Challenge - An online tool to help adults build confidence with everyday maths, including time.
• BBC | Maths for adults - Free videos and downloadable worksheets to help adult learners improve their calculation and numeracy skills.
• Skills for Careers (UK DfE) | Your training options - Browse your education and training choices available and view the different ways to get the skills you need for your career.