2. •LO: To know how to tell the time at 5 minute
intervals.
•Know that numbers on a clock face are written at 5
minute intervals
•Know that the time is read as ‘past’ and ‘to’ the hour
•Know quarter past, quarter to and half past the hour
3. Questions
How many seconds are there in a minute?
How many minutes are there in an hour?
How many minutes are there in quarter of an hour?
How many minutes are there in half an hour?
How many days are there in a month?
How many days are there in a year?
How many days are there in a leap year?
4. This clock shows the hours in black on the inside, and the minutes in
blue around the outside (most clocks don’t show the minutes).
Can you see a pattern between the hours on the inside and the
minutes on the outside?
5. How many minutes past does the blue hand show?
Does it show 2 minutes past or 10 minutes past?
6. Black numbers are the hours and blue numbers are the minutes.
We read the time as ‘minutes past or to the hour’.
Think of it as ‘blue minutes past or to black’.
The time is 10 minutes past 12.
7. How many minutes past is the minute hand pointing
to?
What time does the clock show?
(hint – blue past black )
15. After the minute hand passes ‘half past’, the time stops being ‘minutes
past’ and becomes ‘minutes to’.
This is slightly trickier because the minutes on the outside of the clock
are still counting past the hour.
MINUTES
PAST
MINUTES
TO
16. This clock makes it easier to read the minutes to the hour
because all the numbers in green show the minutes to the
hour.
The time will now be ‘green minutes to black’.
How many minutes is it to the hour?
What time is this clock showing us?
