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Math · Ages 6–9 · 15 minutes

Telling Time: What Comes Before and After?

Time cards turn clock reading into an ordering task: children decide which listed event is earlier, later, or between two others.

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Telling Time: What Comes Before and After?

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Today I am practising: ordering whole-hour and half-hour times

1

Place 4:00 and 4:30 in order.

2

Circle which comes first: 9:30 or 10:00.

3

Write a time that comes after 1:00 and before 2:00.

4

Order 7:30, 7:00, and 8:00.

5

Draw arrows from earliest to latest.

6

Explain to an adult how the minute hand helped you order 5:00 and 5:30.

Grown-up guide
  1. Keep all examples within one daytime cycle to avoid AM/PM complications.
  2. Lay out time cards on a horizontal line before asking the child to write an order.
  3. Ask for a clock-hand explanation whenever two times share an hour number.

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