Telling the Time

Analogue clocks with sixty minute ticks, twelve hour ticks and numerals on the ring. The hour hand is always drawn where it really belongs — at twenty to four it sits two thirds of the way between the 3 and the 4 — because a child taught on clocks that point the hour hand straight at the number has to unlearn it later. Choose how precise the times are, from whole hours up to single minutes, and whether the child reads the clock and writes the time, reads a time and draws the hands, or draws lines between a column of clocks and a column of times. The 24-hour setting keeps every time in the afternoon or evening, so no clock has two right answers.

Age

ages 5–12

Answer key

Included, free

Skills

arithmeticcountingproblem solvingconcentration

What you can change

• What the child does

  Read and write, Draw the hands, Match up

• Times land on

  O'clock, Half past, Quarters, 5 minutes, 1 minute

• How many clocks

  2–12 clocks

• Times written as

  Digits, Words

• Clock style

  12 hour, 24 hour

• Digital box

• Every page also takes the book's language, page size, theme and pictures.