Australia
Year 3
9.04 Read time from a clock
Lesson
Are you ready?
Can you draw a clock face?
Idea summary
To draw a clock face:
Start with a circle.
Put the hours from 1 to 12, so that the 12 is up the top and the 6 is down the bottom.
Draw the minute hand and the hour hand.
Hour and minute hands
When we read the time from a clock, called analogue time, it doesn't look like digital time. Once we learn how a clock works, we can see how the time can be shown two different ways, like these two clocks:
They both show ten past three.
Let's see how each hand on our clock works, and work out the time, then see the digital time.
Examples
Example 1
What time is shown on this clock?
Worked Solution
Idea summary
The small hand on the clock points to the hour of the day and the long hand points to the minutes within that hour.