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Math · Ages 6–9 · 15 minutes

Telling Time: Make and Explain a Clock

A final design task asks children to choose a whole or half hour, draw it accurately, and explain how each hand communicates the time.

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Telling Time: Make and Explain a Clock

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Today I am practising: constructing and explaining an analog time representation

1

Choose one whole-hour time you use or know.

2

Write the time in digits.

3

Draw the minute hand in the correct position.

4

Draw the hour hand in the correct position.

5

Write the time in words.

6

Show an adult your clock and explain what each hand tells them.

Grown-up guide
  1. Offer a blank circle with 1–12 marked if number writing is not the goal.
  2. Prompt for a whole or half hour only so the page checks the taught range.
  3. Ask the child to explain before you identify an error; their explanation reveals the next teaching step.

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