3rd grade · Math · Unit 14 of 18
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.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 3.7(C) · adding and subtracting time intervals in minutes
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 Texas
In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 14 of 18 in 3rd grade Math, after 3D Objects and before Measuring.
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.
Question 1
What time does the clock show?
- 6:35
- 7:30
- 7:06
- 8:30
7:30
Hint: The short red hand shows the hour. The long blue hand shows the minutes. The short hand has gone past 7 but hasn't reached 8 yet, so the hour is still 7. Count by 5s from the 12 to the long hand: 30 minutes. It's 7:30.
Question 2
How many minutes are in a quarter of an hour?
⏳answer box
15
Hint: 1 hour is 60 minutes. A quarter is 1 of 4 equal parts: 15 minutes.
Question 3
What month is 4 months after October?
📅- June
- January
- March
- February
February
Hint: Count on 4 months from October: November, December, January, February.
Question 4
Swimming lessons starts at 4:00 and ends at 6:00. How long is it?
Starts Ends 4:00 6:00 - 1 hour and 45 minutes
- 2 hours
- 3 hours
- 2 hours and 30 minutes
2 hours
Hint: From 4:00, 60 minutes gets you to 5:00. Then 1 hour more is 6:00.
Question 5
The library visit starts at 5:00 and lasts 1 hour. What time does it end?
- 5:45
- 7:00
- 6:30
- 6:00
6:00
Hint: From 5:00, 60 minutes gets you to 6:00.
Question 6
How many minutes after 8 o'clock is it?
answer boxminutes
20 minutes
Hint: Start at the 12. Count by 5s to where the long hand points: 5, 10, 15, 20.