Consolidation and practice
These resources are to support children in guided or independent work.
Opportunities to use and apply
Possible contexts include:
- Matching times to everyday events, e.g. match some pictures of daily events to some given clock faces showing their typical times.
- Comparing times, e.g. sort some given times into a sequence from earliest to latest and draw hands onto corresponding clock faces.
- Problems involving the duration of time, e.g. School starts at 9 o'clock; show this time on your clock. Now show what time it would be if you were half an hour late.
- I went out for a walk at half past 3 and walked for quarter of an hour. Show me on these two clock faces what time I started and what time I would then have finished.
Confirming learning
Ask probing questions such as:
- The long hand on a clock is pointing to the 3, what number will it point to when it has made half a turn?
- What time could it be if the long hand is pointing to 12?
- Close your eyes and imagine a clock face; the long hand is pointing at 12 and the short hand at 3; what time is it?
- Imagine a clock that shows it is half past 3. Where is the long hand pointing? Where is the short hand pointing?
- This clock should be showing half past 7 but one hand is missing. Which one? How do you know? Show me where it should be.