3rd grade · Math · Unit 7 of 14
Time
Clocks, minutes and calendars
What your child practices
Telling time on an analog clock, working out start and end times, and knowing how seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years relate.
Alabama Course of Study content standard: 3.18 · telling time to the nearest minute and solving elapsed-time problems
How we explain it
Children can open this short lesson before they practice.
- The short hand shows the hour. The long hand shows the minutes.
- Each number on the clock is 5 minutes.
- Long hand on 6 means 30 minutes past.
Example: The short hand is just past the 3 and the long hand is on the 6. What time is it? Long hand on 6: 30 minutes. Short hand just past 3: the hour is 3. Answer: 3:30
Time in Alabama
In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 7 of 14 in 3rd grade Math, after Measuring and before Round & Count.
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
How many days are in 2 weeks?
⏳answer box
14
Hint: 1 week is 7 days. 7 + 7 = 14.
Question 2
What time does the clock show?
- 9:40
- 9:08
- 8:45
- 10:40
9:40
Hint: The short red hand shows the hour. The long blue hand shows the minutes. The short hand has gone past 9 but hasn't reached 10 yet, so the hour is still 9. Count by 5s from the 12 to the long hand: 40 minutes. It's 9:40.
Question 3
How many minutes after 12 o'clock is it?
answer boxminutes
20 minutes
Hint: Start at the 12. Count by 5s to where the long hand points: 5, 10, 15, 20.
Question 4
Soccer practice starts at 3:00 and ends at 4:00. How long is it?
Starts Ends 3:00 4:00 - 2 hours
- 1 hour and 30 minutes
- 1 hour
- 45 minutes
1 hour
Hint: From 3:00, 60 minutes gets you to 4:00.
Question 5
What time does the clock show?
- 10:00
- 12:50
- 12:10
- 1:50
12:50
Hint: The short red hand shows the hour. The long blue hand shows the minutes. The short hand has gone past 12 but hasn't reached 1 yet, so the hour is still 12. Count by 5s from the 12 to the long hand: 50 minutes. It's 12:50.
Question 6
Music practice starts at 10:00 and lasts 15 minutes. What time does it end?
- 11:15
- 10:15
- 10:00
- 10:45
10:15
Hint: Count on 15 minutes from 10:00: 10:15.