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.
Alaska content standards learning standard: 3.MD.1 · 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 Alaska
In the Alaska content standards, 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.
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.
Question 1
Swimming lessons starts at 9:30 and ends at 10:30. How long is it?
Starts Ends 9:30 10:30 - 1 hour and 30 minutes
- 45 minutes
- 2 hours
- 1 hour
1 hour
Hint: From 9:30, 30 minutes gets you to 10:00. Then 30 minutes more is 10:30.
Question 2
Which unit would you use to measure how long you sleep at night?
😴- years
- months
- hours
hours
Hint: Think about how long it really takes. Seconds are very short, minutes are a bit longer, hours are long, and years are very, very long.
Question 3
What time does the clock show?
- 2:06
- 6:10
- 3:30
- 2:30
2:30
Hint: The short red hand shows the hour. The long blue hand shows the minutes. The short hand has gone past 2 but hasn't reached 3 yet, so the hour is still 2. Count by 5s from the 12 to the long hand: 30 minutes. It's 2:30.
Question 4
Soccer practice starts at 7:30 and lasts 45 minutes. What time does it end?
- 8:00
- 9:15
- 8:15
- 8:45
8:15
Hint: From 7:30, 30 minutes gets you to 8:00. Then 15 minutes more is 8:15.
Question 5
How many seconds are in 1 minute?
⏳answer box
60
Hint: 1 minute is 60 seconds.
Question 6
What month is 3 months after December?
📅- September
- March
- February
- April
March
Hint: Count on 3 months from December: January, February, March.