Telling Time: Kids Math Clock
Learn to tell time on an analog clock through play: set the hands, read and hear times, and unlock puzzle rewards.
What you can do with ClockABC
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Explore the clock through play
Move the hands and explore how hours and minutes fit together.
Set the hands yourself
Use the hour and minute sliders to set the time shown in a task.
Connect analog and digital
Compare the clock hands with digital displays and times written in words.
Put the time into words
Read the analog clock and arrange the matching word tiles to describe the time.
Practice elapsed time
What time will it be? Move the clock forward from a starting time by the given duration.
Learn step by step
Choose tasks with whole hours, half hours, quarter hours or five-minute steps.
Turn practice into a reward
Collect correct answers and unlock a picture puzzle as a little reward.
Listen and set the clock: six activities for two
Read six times aloud, set both clock hands and check together. A partner listening activity with separate prompts, answers and helpful questions.
Make a paper clock: set both moving hands correctly
Make a cardboard teaching clock with a split pin. Follow four building steps, set 2:00, 2:30 and 2:45, and check both hands with the answers.
Clock detectives: spot and fix four hand-position mistakes
Be a clock detective: spot four hand-position mistakes, make the right corrections and explain your reasoning with separate, worked answers.
Morning or evening? Practise the 12- and 24-hour clock
Match an analogue clock to morning or evening and write the 24-hour time. Six questions with explained answers, including noon and midnight.
Quarter past, half past or quarter to? Read the words on an analogue clock
Understand quarter past, half past and quarter to with clear clock-hand positions, simple checks and four practice questions with answers.
How long between two times? Work out elapsed time on an analog clock
How long from 9:35 to 10:20? Find the elapsed time by counting through the whole hour, with analog clock examples and three solved questions.
Read an analogue clock in five-minute steps
Why does the minute hand on 5 mean 25 minutes? Learn all twelve five-minute positions, follow the hour hand and try three questions with answers.
Adding time on an analogue clock: find the finishing time
How do you add a duration to a clock time? Work from 9:45 to 10:15 step by step, check the hands and try three problems with answers.
What does “dreiviertel acht” mean? German quarter-hour phrases explained
Dreiviertel acht is 7:45, but viertel acht is 7:15. Compare German quarter-hour phrases with clock hands, examples and a short exercise.
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