1st grade · Math · Unit 13 of 16
Hour & Half Hour
Tell time on a clock
What your child practices
Telling time to the hour and half hour on clocks with hands and on digital clocks.
Alabama Course of Study content standard: 1.19 · telling and writing time in hours and half hours on analog and digital clocks
How we explain it
Children can open this short lesson before they practice.
- The short hand shows the hour.
- Long hand on 12: it is o'clock.
- Long hand on 6: it is half past.
Example: The short hand is past 3. The long hand is on 6. The hour is 3. Long hand on 6 means 30 minutes. Answer: 3:30
Hour & Half Hour in Alabama
In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 13 of 16 in 1st grade Math, after One Half and before Jump by Tens.
Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
What time is it?
- 12:00
- 11:00
- 11:30
- 10:00
11:00
Hint: The short hand shows the hour. The long hand shows the minutes.
Question 2
Which clock time matches?
- 11:00
- 10:30
- 12:30
- 11:30
11:30
Hint: Read the short hand for the hour first.
Question 3
The long hand points to 12. The short hand points to 9. What time is it?
- 9:00
- 12:45
- 10:00
- 9:30
9:00
Hint: When the long hand is on 12, it is o'clock.
Question 4
It is 9:30. Where is the short hand?
- Between 8 and 9
- On the 9
- Between 9 and 10
Between 9 and 10
Hint: At half past, the short hand is halfway to the next number.
Question 5
It is 11:00. What time will it be in 1 hour?
- 12:00
- 1:00
- 10:00
- 11:30
12:00
Hint: One hour later, the hour goes up by one.
Question 6
What time is half past 5?
- 6:00
- 5:00
- 5:30
- 6:30
5:30
Hint: Half past means 30 minutes after 5 o'clock.