Reading the Clock to the Hour and Half Hour

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Antoinette Grech Primary Maths Support Team

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Lesson Duration:

45 mins.

What should you expect from this lesson?

This lesson presents an opportunity for junior mathematicians to learn how to read the time to the hour and half hour on an analogue clock while practice telling time from both analogue and 12-hour digital clocks. Students can take the opportunity to use a clock face or construct one of their own to enhance hands on learning. (The activity of constructing a clock face can be found from Teleskola – Year 1 Mathematics – Reading Time to the o’clock).

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Introduction
Lesson is introduced to the student by the following game .

This will be a revision of telling time to the hour.

Lesson Development
Students are then told that they will be learning how to read time to the half hour. They are introduced to time to the half hour with the following video:

After the video, students are taught the half past concept using a clock face:
• When the minute hand points at 6, it is half past (show on the clock face by arranging the minute hand on the 6).
• This is because the minute hand has moved half way round the clock (move the minute hand of the clock face from 12 to 6)
• While at half past, the hour hand is exactly half way between 2 numbers (show on the clock face by putting the hour hand half way between e.g 9 and 10)
• Students are then asked what time is it? Since the hour hand was on the 9 and moving to 10

Students can then practice reading time to the half hour by playing the following games:
Game 1
Game 2
Game 3 …and choose Measurement and Data – Tell time to the Half Hour

Conclusion
Students can engage in further practise by working out this worksheet.
All lesson can also be viewed from the PowerPoint presentation attached.

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  Picture1 .jpg | download
  Reading Time to the Hour and Half .pptx | download
  Worksheet .docx | download

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