TELLING TIME
Authored by Soo Lee Teh
English
3rd Grade
CCSS covered
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This quiz focuses on telling time using analog and digital clocks, making it ideal for grade 2-3 students who are developing fundamental time-telling skills. The questions systematically assess students' ability to read clock faces and interpret time in multiple formats, including o'clock times, half past, quarter past, and quarter to expressions. Students must demonstrate understanding of clock hand functions, distinguishing between the hour hand (short hand) and minute hand (long hand), while also converting between digital time notation and written time expressions. The core concepts required include recognizing that the short hand indicates hours, the long hand shows minutes, and that time can be expressed both numerically (like 7:45) and in words (like "quarter to eight"). Students need to visualize clock positions and understand the relationship between minute positions and common time phrases. Created by Soo Lee Teh, an English teacher in Malaysia who teaches grade 3. This quiz serves as an excellent tool for reinforcing time-telling vocabulary and concepts through multiple practice opportunities that build student confidence with this essential life skill. Teachers can effectively use this quiz as a warm-up activity to activate prior knowledge before time-telling lessons, as guided practice during instruction to check for understanding, or as homework to reinforce classroom learning. The variety of question formats makes it particularly valuable for formative assessment, allowing teachers to identify which specific aspects of time-telling individual students have mastered and which require additional support. This comprehensive practice aligns with standards such as 2.MD.C.7 and 3.MD.A.1, which focus on telling and writing time to the nearest five minutes and understanding relationships between time units.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What time is it?
A quarter to two
Three o'clock
Half past two
A quarter past two
Tags
CCSS.3.MD.A.1
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What time is it?
A quarter to seven
Seven o'clock
A quarter past seven
Half past seven
Tags
CCSS.3.MD.A.1
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What time is it?
A quarter past ten
A quarter to ten
Ten o'clock
Half past ten
Tags
CCSS.3.MD.A.1
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What time is it?
Half past twelve
Twelve o'clock
A quarter to twelve
A quarter past twelve
Tags
CCSS.3.MD.A.1
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What time is it?
Eleven o'clock
Twelve o'clock
Six o'clock
Half past eleven
Tags
CCSS.1.MD.B.3
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What time is it?
It's seven o'clock
It's half past seven
It's nine o'clock
It's twelve o'clock
Tags
CCSS.1.MD.B.3
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the red hand?
hour hand
minute hand
Tags
CCSS.4.MD.A.1
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