Telling the time
A clock face with both of its scales printed — the hours inside, the minutes outside — and a table of what each five-minute mark is actually called.
Reference chart
Telling the time
Past the half hour, count to the next hour. The hand at :40 is twenty to four, not twenty past three — so the hour you say is the one the short hand is heading for.
| Minutes | We say | Minutes | We say |
|---|---|---|---|
| :00 | o'clock | :30 | half past |
| :05 | five past | :35 | twenty-five to |
| :10 | ten past | :40 | twenty to |
| :15 | quarter past | :45 | quarter to |
| :20 | twenty past | :50 | ten to |
| :25 | twenty-five past | :55 | five to |
What's on this chart
Nearly every child who cannot tell the time can count to sixty and can read to twelve. What nobody has shown them is that an analog clock asks for both at once off the same twelve marks: the 3 means three o'clock to the short hand and fifteen minutes to the long one. One dial, two scales, and only one of them is printed on an ordinary clock.
Why this chart helps
This chart prints the other one. The minutes ring the face in fives, directly outside the hour they share a mark with, so the link a child is expected to hold in their head is sitting there on the paper instead. Once it is visible, reading the minutes stops being recall and becomes counting, which is something a five-year-old can already do.
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