ClockTo 1 minute
Name: Date:
Look at each clock. Follow the short hour hand and the long minute hand, then write the time.
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Tell time to the minute worksheets
The last step in reading a clock is every minute, not just the fives — where the minute hand sits between two marks and the child counts on from the nearest five. These free printable sheets ask for six clocks read to the exact minute.
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Tell time to the minute
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What's on this sheet
To the minute, the fives become landmarks rather than answers. The child counts round the face by fives to the mark before the hand, then counts on the extra ones — 5, 10, and so on to 35, then 36, 37. It is the reading a real clock actually needs, and it is where careful counting replaces pattern recognition.
Why this sheet works
Each of the six clocks sits at a different minute and a different hour, so the answers share no shortcut. The hour hand matters more at this precision, sitting most of the way to the next number as the minutes climb toward sixty, and the child learns to read the number it has passed rather than the one it is near.
How this one works
One question from this sheet, worked through a step at a time.
Read the clock
short hand:the hour
long hand:the minutes
past7→ hour is7
minutes:54
hour:7
minutes:54
7:54
- Two hands, and they are read on two different scales — so take them one at a time, short hand first.
- The short hand is nearly at the 8 — and that is the trap. The hour is the number it has PASSED, not the one it is heading for. It has passed the 7, so it is 7 something.
- Now the long hand. The numbers on the face are hours; the little marks between them are one minute each, and it reads 54.
- Hour 7, minutes 54 — 7:54.