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.
Arizona Academic Standards learning standard: 3.MD.A.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 Arizona
In the Arizona Academic 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: Arizona Department of Education
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 does the clock show?
- 5:09
- 6:45
- 9:25
- 5:45
5:45
Hint: The short red hand shows the hour. The long blue hand shows the minutes. The short hand has gone past 5 but hasn't reached 6 yet, so the hour is still 5. Count by 5s from the 12 to the long hand: 45 minutes. It's 5:45.
Question 2
How many minutes are in half an hour?
⏳answer box
30
Hint: 1 hour is 60 minutes. Half of 60 is 30.
Question 3
What time does the clock show?
- 4:06
- 4:30
- 5:30
- 6:20
4:30
Hint: The short red hand shows the hour. The long blue hand shows the minutes. The short hand has gone past 4 but hasn't reached 5 yet, so the hour is still 4. Count by 5s from the 12 to the long hand: 30 minutes. It's 4:30.
Question 4
Which unit would you use to measure how long it takes a baby to grow up?
👶- years
- minutes
- days
years
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 5
What month is 4 months after November?
📅- February
- July
- March
- April
March
Hint: Count on 4 months from November: December, January, February, March.
Question 6
The movie starts at 9:30 and lasts 1 hour and 30 minutes. What time does it end?
- 11:30
- 11:00
- 12:00
- 10:45
11:00
Hint: From 9:30, 30 minutes gets you to 10:00. Then 1 hour more is 11:00.