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2nd grade · Math · Unit 12 of 16

Five-Minute Clock

Time to 5 minutes, a.m. and p.m.

What your child practices

Reading clocks to the nearest five minutes, quarter past and quarter to, and knowing when a time is a.m. or p.m.

Alaska content standards learning standard: 2.MD.7 · telling and writing time to the nearest five minutes, using a.m. and p.m.

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. The short hand shows the hour.
  2. Count by 5s from the 12 to the long hand for the minutes.
  3. a.m. is morning. p.m. is afternoon and evening.

Example: The short hand is just past 4. The long hand is on the 5. The hour is 4. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25: 25 minutes. Answer: 4:25

Five-Minute Clock in Alaska

In the Alaska content standards, this is unit 12 of 16 in 2nd grade Math, after Dollars & Cents and before Inches, Feet & Yards.

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

    The long hand points to the 2. How many minutes after the hour is it?

    • 0
    • 20
    • 10
    • 2

  2. Question 2

    What time is quarter to 8?

    • 7:15
    • 8:45
    • 7:45
    • 8:15

  3. Question 3

    It is 6:15. What time is it 25 minutes later?

    • 7:15
    • 6:00
    • 6:40
    • 6:45

  4. Question 4

    Lena reads a bedtime story at 6:00. Is that a.m. or p.m.?

    • a.m.
    • p.m.

  5. Question 5

    What time is it?

    123456789101112
    • 8:35
    • 8:25
    • 8:30
    • 6:40
    • 7:30

  6. Question 6

    Ana walks to school at 8:30. Is that a.m. or p.m.?

    • a.m.
    • p.m.

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