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Mathematics · Grade 1

Read Clocks and Describe Time

Learners tell and write time to the hour and half hour on analog and digital clocks: the short hand shows the hour, the long hand shows the minutes, and half past means the long hand has gone halfway around. They then put the events of a day in time order and find one hour later.

  • 3 lessons
  • About 50 minutes
  • Time check: 8 questions
  • Ways to answer: fill in the blanks, choose an answer, match pairs, type a number, put in order and sort into groups
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What learners will discover

  • Tell and write time to the hour from an analog clock (hands described) and a digital clock, such as 4:00.
  • Tell and write time to the half hour, such as half past 3 written 3:30, and explain where the hour hand points.
  • Order everyday events by their times and find the time one hour later.

Lessons

  1. Time to the hour 5 steps3 practiceabout 16 min
  2. Half past 5 steps3 practiceabout 17 min
  3. Times in our day 6 steps3 practiceabout 17 min
  4. Time check 8 questions at the end

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Games to practice with

  • Number-Line HopHelp the frog hop to the right number — from counting to negative fractions.
  • Paint by AnswersSolve each space, dip your brush and watch a picture come to life.
  • Number TrainAll aboard! Load exactly the right number of animals onto the train.

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