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Time
Objectives
To read time on analogue clocks to the nearest quarter hour.
Resources
Abacus Workbook 2 | A4 plain paper | Interactive Teaching Clock (TopMarks) | 📄 Telling the time Resource
Vocabulary
quarter | quarter past | quarter of an hour
Today's Lesson
What to Get Ready
Cut a circle out of a piece of A4 paper, roughly half the size of the paper.
Introduction
Give your student the circle of paper.
Say: ‘Fold your circle in half. Now fold it in half again so that you have 4 equal parts. What do we call these parts?’ (Quarters)
Say: ‘This circle is a bit like a clock face. Write 12 at the top.’
Ask: ‘What number goes at the bottom? Why?’ (Show that 6 is half of 12 and 6 is halfway round the clock.)
Then ask where 3 should go on the clock face.
Say: ‘This number is a ¼ (a quarter) of the way round the clock face. When the minute hand is here, it is ¼ of an hour past an o’clock time.’
Point to where the 9 should go.
Ask: ‘And here? When the minute hand is here, it has ¼ of an hour to go until the next o’clock time.’
Watch the video until you are told to pause, and then return to this lesson. You will be told when to resume the next part of the video.
Next, access the interactive teaching clock and display the analogue clock.
EXPLORE - Interactive Teaching Clock (TopMarks)
Show 9 o’clock and a time interval of ¼ hr by clicking on the ‘+’ to the right of 15 minutes.
Ask: ‘What time does the clock show now?’ (9:15 or quarter past 9)
Explain that now it shows ¼ past 9, it’s ¼ of an hour after 9 o’clock, and explain that we write it like this: ‘quarter past 9’ and ‘¼ past 9’.
Repeat. What time is it now? Half past 9.
Click again.
Say: ‘Now it’s only ¼ of an hour before it’s 10 o’clock, look how the hour hand is quite close to 10 o’clock. This is ¼ (or quarter) to 10.’
Click again.
Say: ‘It’s ¼ of an hour later, so it’s now 10 o’clock.’
Click again.
Ask: ‘What time is it now?’ (10:15 or quarter past 10)
Then change the time interval to 1 hour. Click repeatedly so your student writes the time down each time.
Do they notice how they just need to change the first number (the hour) each time? Encourage them to notice this.
Now continue watching the video from where you left off.
Main Activity
Access the 📄 Telling the time Resource.
Have a clock available for your student to use. They should consider the time on each clock in turn. Encourage them to discuss the time with you. Is it a ‘past’ time? Or is it a ‘to’ time?
They should then write the time in words under the clock.
Workbook
To help your student build upon their learning from today, please ask them to complete the activities on page 27 of Abacus Workbook 2.