The answer is…
86,400!
86,400. That’s A LOT of seconds. There are 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute, so you can use the equation 24 x 60 x 60 to find the total number of seconds in a day.
What is my child learning?
Learning Connection: Throughout schools, students learn about time and clocks in math. Specifically, they learn to use seconds, minutes, and hours as units of measurement. This activity helps students understand the relationship between seconds and days. This activity can be extended to support other mathematical concepts as students actually engage in the multiplication to answer the question.
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Extra Resources
Watch somebody do the math.
This video shows a time lapse of one day so you can watch those seconds pass quickly!