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🕐 Telling Time

Meet the clock and learn how its hands tell us the time!

lesson

~5 min

to learn

🔢 Math

subject

Ages 3–5

level

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What you’ll learn

The child can name a clock's two hands and know the short hand shows the hour.A clock is often round with numbers 1 to 12. It has a short hour hand and a long minute hand. When the short hand points at a number, that is the hour, and clocks help us through our whole day.

Questions this course answers

How many hands does a clock have?

A clock has two hands: a short hand for the hour and a long hand for the minutes.

Which hand tells us the hour?

The short hand is the hour hand. When it points at a number, that is the hour.

Grounded in trusted sources

Britannica Kids — Clock (kids.britannica.com)
Tutors.com — How To Tell Time: Read An Analog Clock (tutors.com/lesson/how-to-tell-time-read-an-analog-clock)
DreamBox — How to Read a Clock (dreambox.com/math/skills/measurement/how-to-read-a-clock)

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