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1st grade · Math · Unit 12 of 16

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.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 1.7(E) · telling time to the hour and half hour 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 Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 12 of 16 in 1st grade Math, after Measuring and before Data & Graphs.

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: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

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 12. The short hand points to 1. What time is it?

    • 1:00
    • 12:05
    • 2:00
    • 1:30

  2. Question 2

    Which clock time matches?

    123456789101112
    • 1:00
    • 12:30
    • 2:30
    • 1:30

  3. Question 3

    What time is half past 3?

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

  4. Question 4

    What time is it?

    123456789101112
    • 5:30
    • 6:20
    • 4:30
    • 3:30

  5. Question 5

    It is 6:30. Where is the short hand?

    • On the 6
    • Between 6 and 7
    • Between 5 and 6

  6. Question 6

    It is 9:00. What time will it be in 1 hour?

    • 10:00
    • 8:00
    • 11:00
    • 9:30

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