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1st grade · Math · Unit 12 of 14

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.

Alaska content standards learning standard: 1.MD.3 · 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.

  1. The short hand shows the hour.
  2. Long hand on 12: it is o'clock.
  3. 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 Alaska

In the Alaska content standards, this is unit 12 of 14 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.

Source: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    What time is it?

    123456789101112
    • 12:30
    • 1:30
    • 11:30
    • 12:00

  2. Question 2

    It is 8:00. Where is the short hand?

    • On the 12
    • On the 8
    • Between 8 and 9

  3. Question 3

    The long hand points to 12. The short hand points to 6. What time is it?

    • 12:30
    • 7:00
    • 6:00
    • 6:30

  4. Question 4

    It is 8:00. What time will it be in 1 hour?

    • 10:00
    • 9:00
    • 7:00
    • 8:30

  5. Question 5

    What time is half past 3?

    • 4:30
    • 4:00
    • 3:00
    • 3:30

  6. Question 6

    Which clock time matches?

    123456789101112
    • 3:30
    • 2:30
    • 3:00
    • 4:30

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