Telling Time: Minutes
Tell and write the time to five minutes, including quarter past and quarter to, and draw clock hands to show these times
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Teaching Table
Set out your lesson
Read minute positions while remembering that the hour hand also moves.
Comfort with the particular task and communication mode; optional oral/scribed work is recorded separately.
Check the learner can access these words/materials and prerequisite ideas; historical authorship is not readiness or mastery. If not, demonstrate briefly or revisit the named prerequisite.
Use the supplied clock faces and a pencil or point on screen. Longer hand is minutes, shorter is hours; drawings are schematic, not physical clock mechanisms. No printer: view only the active learner card on screen, or an adult copies its exact prompts onto plain paper without answers. Oral pointing/dictation is an access option; record it as adapted/supported and do not claim handwriting from it. Keep adult keys/scripts separate; supply only the current stage.
Use fictional cases and invented identifiers; never record personal conflicts, health, bank details or family spending. Adult prompts/keys are private companion files, never learner links.
Use the complete materials on screen or print only the current sheet. Keep adult guidance out of learner view. Retain an earlier model only when the current step supplies it as context.
Teaching limits and safe use
These are finite task opportunities, not proof of mastery. Record what was attempted and what support was used.
Five-minute examples only. Text alternative describing hand positions is an adapted reading task, not visual clock-reading evidence.
Use fictional cases and invented identifiers; never record personal conflicts, health, bank details or family spending. Adult prompts/keys are private companion files, never learner links.
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Read minute positions while remembering that the hour hand also moves.
Read minute positions while remembering that the hour hand also moves.
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Check understanding
- Read an analogue clock showing 3:25
- Write 'quarter past 9' or '9:15'
- Draw clock hands to show twenty to four
“If the clock shows quarter to four, can your child tell you the time — and draw hands on a blank clock face to show twenty past three?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Representational
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Domain
- Measurement
- Age range
- Ages 6–7
Standards