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Objectives
To order times shown on a clock.
Resources
Hit the Button (TopMarks) | 📄 Times to order | Geared clock or teaching clock | 📄 Ordering times
Vocabulary
minute (hand) | hour (hand) | half past | quarter past | quarter to | earliest | latest
Today's Lesson
What to Get Ready
Cut out the times (or ask your student to) from 📄 Ordering times.
Introduction
To keep mental recall of times tables facts fresh, ask your student to access Hit the Button.
ACCESS - Hit the Button (TopMarks)
Challenge your student to play each of these times tables twice through, beating their score on the 2nd go.
Show the times from 📄 Times to order (2 o’clock, half past 4, quarter to 3 and quarter past 3).
Explain: All these times are in the afternoon. Which one is the earliest? And latest?
Remind that when the long/minute hand is in the pink it is a ‘past’ time, when it is in the blue it is a ‘to’ time.
Ask your student to write the four times in order from the earliest to the latest.
Using a geared / teaching clock, count on in steps of quarter of an hour on a from 2 o’clock to half past 4. Note each of the four times as you meet them in order.
Point to the first two clocks (2 o’clock and quarter to 3), and ask your student to use the teaching clock to show a time in between these 2 times.
Use this as a chance to discuss and model telling the time to the nearest 5 minutes.
Repeat with other pairs of clocks and discuss what might be happening at these times in the afternoon.
Main Activity
Use the cut-out clocks from 📄 Ordering times, ask your student to order them from 2 o’clock in the afternoon to 7 o’clock in the evening (sheet 1).
If your student is feeling more confident and is ready, ask them to order times from 8 o’clock in the morning to 7 o’clock in the evening (sheet 2).
Extra Challenge
Pose these questions to your student:
Callie had arranged to meet her friend Steph at ten past three on Saturday afternoon. Callie arrived quarter of an hour early and Steph arrived quarter of an hour late!
What time did each of the girls arrive?
How long did Callie have to wait for Steph?