Video Transcript
Daniel and Victoria both started
getting ready at the same time. Who got ready faster?
You know, if we want to compare
whether someone is faster or slower, it’s very important to know when someone starts
doing something and when they finish. In this question, we’re told that
Daniel and Victoria both start getting ready at the same time. This means we don’t need to worry
about the start time. We can think of it as being a
little bit like a race to get ready. They both started at exactly the
same time. So, what matters is what time they
finished.
Now, if we look at the clocks that
are underneath the question, we can see the time that both children finished getting
ready. And there is something interesting
about those times. Can you see it? The minute hand, which is the
orange hand on both clocks, the long hand, is pointing to the number six. This means that since it was an
o’clock time, it’s gone half the way around the clock face. In other words, these are both
half-past times.
Now, if we begin with Daniel’s
clock and we look at the hour hand, which is the shorter hand, we can see that it’s
between the numbers eight and nine. In other words, it’s gone past the
number eight, and it’s on its way to number nine. But it hasn’t got there yet. This shows the time half past
eight. On Victoria’s clock, the hour hand
is halfway between the seven and the eight. It’s gone past the seven, but it
hasn’t reached the eight yet. The time is half past seven. Now, we know that Victoria’s time
is earlier than Daniel’s time because half past seven comes before half past
eight. We could also say that Daniel
finished later than Victoria because half past eight is later; it comes after half
past seven.
But this question doesn’t want us
to use words like earlier and later; it asks us who got ready faster. Now, this is where we really need
to think carefully. If both children started getting
ready at the same time, would you expect the child who gets ready faster, the person
who does it really quickly, to finish earlier or later? We’d expect them to finish
earlier. We can imagine Victoria, who’s
already got ready, tapping her watch and saying, “Come on, Daniel, hurry up!” The person who finished faster is
the person who finished earlier. And that person is Victoria.
