Reading Dates and Calendars | 3rd Grade Maths, Term 1 Unit 5

Reading Dates and Calendars | 3rd Grade Maths, Term 1 Unit 5

3rd Maths : Term 1 Unit 5 : Time

Read a particular day and date

Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday was on the second of October 1869. In our country, The date is usually represented as follows 02.10.1869 first 2 digits represents day, second 2 digits represents month and third 4 digits represent the year. We generally denotel it as dd/mm/yyyy format.

Date format dd/mm/yyyy

(1) Write today’s date in dd.mm.yy format.

(2) Write your birthday in dd/mm/yyyy format.

Try this

Circle the date given below in the following calendar.

Calendar for January and February 2018

(1) The date 4 january 2018 ?

(2) The date 15 januray 2018 ?

(3) The date 22 february 2018 ?

(4) The date 31 january 2018 ?

(5) The date 28 february 2018 ?

(6) The date 5/02/2018 ?

(7) The date 26/01/2018 ?

(8) The sunday date in january 2018 ?

Activity 3

Find the age of your friends by subtracting their birthday from the present date.

Age calculation example

Do yourself

Fill the table with the date of birth of your family members.

Table for family members' date of birth

Practice

1. Look at the calendar of 2018 and fill in the boxes.

(1) Teachers Day is on

5th September (Tuesday)

(2) Independence Day is on

15th August (Tuesday)

(3) Republic Day is on

21th January (Thursday)

(4) Children’s Day is on

14th November (Tuesday)

2. Match the following.

Date in Words Date in dd.mm.yyyy format
November 15, 201826.04.2018
June16, 201810.12.2017
April26, 201815.11.2018
December10, 201726.05.2017
May26, 201716.06.2018
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November 15, 2018 − 15.11.2018

June 16, 2018 − 16.06.2018

April 26, 2018 − 26.04.2018

December 10, 2017 − 10.12.2017

May 26, 2017 − 26.05.2017

3. Look at the above calendar and fill in the blanks.

October 2018 Calendar

(1) Number of days in October 2018 is 31.

(2) The number of Sundays 4.

(3) The first Saturday is on 6th.

(4) Last day of the month is Wednesday.

(5) The tenth day of this month is Wednesday.

(6) The third Wednesday comes on 17th.