Time

Objectives

To tell the time using digital and analogue to the nearest 5 minutes.

Resources

📄 Analogue clock | 📄 Clock time cards | Tell the Time (Interactive Digital Clock) (Mathsframe) | Digital clock | 📄 Matching times

Vocabulary

analogue | digital | minutes past | minutes to

Today's Lesson

What to Get Ready

Cut out the 📄 Clock time cards (or ask your student to).

Introduction

Show the 📄 Analogue clock. This shows what we call analogue time. Remind your student that when the minute (long) hand is in the pink it is a ‘past’ time and when it is in the blue it is a ‘to’ time.

Also show the interactive digital clock.

ACCESS - Tell the Time (Interactive Digital Clock) (Mathsframe)

Say:

This shows us digital time (just digits, no hands).

Relate minutes ‘past’ the hour on the digital clock to the pink section on the 📄 Analogue clock.

Set both clocks to 6:15. Ask what the analogue time is and agree it is ‘quarter past six’. Then note that the corresponding digital time is shown as 6:15.

Say:

I can count 5, 10, 15 minutes on the analogue clock. One quarter of 60 is 15.

Repeat with 6:30. Check your student can recognise the analogue time as ‘half past 6’. Count the sets of 5 minutes to demonstrate why the digital time is shown as 6:30 (that is, 30 minutes past 6).

Set both clocks to 5:45. Count around the analogue clock in 5s to read the analogue time. Say:

We don’t say ‘45 minutes past 5’ as this is a blue or ‘to’ time. How many minutes to 6 is it? So, 15 minutes to 6 is the same as quarter to 6.

Be very clear that even though we say the 6 in analogue time, it isn’t 6 o’clock yet.

Repeat with 3:45, again checking that your student remembers that the time is ‘quarter to 4’ and then counting the minutes to 45.

Repeat with other \frac{1}{4} and \frac{1}{2} hour times, displaying the analogue clock alongside the hidden digital clock and asking your student to write the corresponding digital time.

Reveal the digital display to allow your student to self-check.

Main Activity

Play pairs with the set of cut-out 📄 Clock time cards.

Explain that the digital clocks have ‘+ 15 mins’ on them which means that you have to match them with an analogue clock showing the time that is 15 minutes (or a quarter of an hour) later.

The winner collects the most pairs.

Extra Support

Cut out the cards from 📄 Matching times and play pairs with these cards.

Citations

[1] mathsframe.co.uk