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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.

Maine Learning Results 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.

  1. The short hand shows the hour. The long hand shows the minutes.
  2. Each number on the clock is 5 minutes.
  3. 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 Maine

In the Maine Learning Results, 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: Maine 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.

  1. Question 1

    How many minutes after 3 o'clock is it?

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  2. Question 2

    What time does the clock show?

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    • 9:03
    • 9:15
    • 3:45
    • 8:15

  3. Question 3

    Music practice starts at 1:00 and lasts 1 hour. What time does it end?

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    • 2:30
    • 3:00
    • 1:45
    • 2:00

  4. Question 4

    What time does the clock show?

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    • 9:30
    • 9:06
    • 6:45
    • 10:30

  5. Question 5

    What month is 4 months after March?

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    • August
    • June
    • July
    • November

  6. Question 6

    How many seconds are in 1 minute?

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