AM and PM
Lesson
You may already know that there are $24$24 hours in a day but clocks only go to $12$12. Why? Well, for one thing, we would need a very big clock to fit $24$24 numbers around it! People also worked out a long time ago that they could split the days into two lots of $12$12 hours and just make note of whether it was morning or afternoon. Let's learn more about this now.Remember!
AM means "before midday" and PM means "after midday."
Examples
question 1
Choose whether these activities normally happen in the AM or PM.
Going to bed.
AM
APM
BEating breakfast.
AM
APM
BWatching the sun rise.
AM
APM
B
question 2
James went to a movie at $11:50$11:50 am. The movie went for $1$1 hour and $10$10 minutes.
Would the movie finish in the am or pm?
am
Apm
BComplete the statement:
The movie finishes at $\editable{}$$:$:$\editable{}$$\editable{}$ pm.
question 3
Valentina starts work at $7$7 am and finishes work at $5:30$5:30 in the evening.
Complete the statement:
Valentina is at work for $\editable{}$ hours and $\editable{}$ minutes.
How about some LATIN!
The abbreviation AM, comes from the latin "ante meridiem" which means before midday and the abbreviation PM comes from the latin "post merideim", meaning after midday.