Telling Time to the Nearest Hour

Introduction To Telling Time

29/5/23

Grade 3/4

For Sara Joshi

Telling the time is the ability to read from a clock the time of day or night in units of hours, minutes and seconds.

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What is Time?

Hours + Minutes

Multiple Choice

Which hand is the hour hand?

• the short one

• the long one

• the non existent

​Where the hour hand is, is the hour of day/night it is. For example, if the hour hand was on the 6, it would be 6 o‘clock. If it is between a number, you would put the number less as the hour, as the hour hasn’t passed to the next yet

Time-

Hour Hand

Multiple Choice

What is the time?

• 12 o‘clock

• 1 o‘clock

• 7 o‘clock

• 0 o‘clock

Multiple Choice

What is the time?

• 12 o‘clock

• 7 o‘clock

• 5 o‘clock

• 3 o‘clock

The minute hand is a little bit different to the hour hand. Instead of counting the number shown on the clock, we multiply that number by 5 for the amount of minutes.

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Minute Hand

There aren’t 12 minutes in an hour, but there are 60 minutes, with 12 x 5 being 60. So an easy way to remember how many minutes have past since the last hour, is to look at the number it is on and multiply by 5.

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Minute Hand

Multiple Choice

If the minute hand is on 2, how many minutes have passed? (remember the last slide!!)

• 2 minutes

• 5 minutes

• 10 minutes

• 200 minutes

What time is it now? Look at the hour hand and the minute hand and tell the time. What number is the hour hand on? What about the minute hand? What do we do to calculate the minutes?

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Now, put your learning together!

As well as writing time as the hours and minutes, time is also referred to how much past or to the nearest hour it is. You may have heard the terms “half past” “quarter past” and “quarter to”, If you look at the image, you can see half of the clock highlighted red and blue. The half highlighted in red is the past side, as the closest hour is the one that just passed. The blue side, is the to side, as the closest hour, is the next hour. However, we won’t say 35 minutes too a time if the minute hand was on 7. Instead, we would say 25 minutes to whatever the next hour was. If you feel stuck with the to side, look at the number opposite (for example, 11 and 1). If the minute hand was on 11, it would be hour:55, or 5 minutes to whatever the next hour was going to be.

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Past and To in Time

Multiple Choice

If the minute hand was on the number 9, how many minutes to the next hour would it be?

• 15 minutes too

• 45 minutes too

• avocado 🥑

• 9 minutes past

BY KEYA

Good luck!

I hope you understood. You are doing great!