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Tell Time at Quarter Past the Hour

Students tell and write time at quarter past the hour (:15), recognizing that the minute hand at 3 means 15 minutes past the hour (e.g., 4:15).

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Tell Time at Quarter Past the Hour

Grade 2 · Telling Time · question 1 of 3

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Tell the time.

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Quarter past means 15 minutes after the hour.

The long hand points at 3.

The short hand sits a little past the hour.

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Read it: Counting minutes by fives

You look at the clock. Counting every minute around would be slow. The minute hand is on 8, and the clock reads 2:40.

  1. Find the minute hand. It points at a numeral.
  2. Count by fives around to the 8: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40.
  3. The minute hand on 8 is 40 minutes. Read 2:40.

Counting every minute around the clock works, but it is slow, and you lose the count.

Each numeral is 5 minutes, so jumping numeral to numeral is five times faster.

The hour hand names the hour; the minute hand names the minutes. They do different jobs.

The minute hand counts minutes by fives around the numerals.

Reading the 8 as 8 minutes instead of 40.

The 8 is a numeral. Count by fives to it: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40.

The short hand is just past 5 and the long hand points at the 3. What time is it? — 5:15. The 3 is 15 minutes: a quarter past 5.

4:15 — quarter past 4

Let's read this clock together. What time is it when we say 'quarter past four'?

An hour has four equal parts called quarters. A 'quarter past' means just one of those parts has gone by.

Here's our clock — the numbers one through twelve go all the way around.

Grade 2 · Reading the clock at a quarter past

The short hand is the hour hand. It's just past the four, so the hour is four.

The long hand is the minute hand. It's pointing right at the three.

Each number on the clock counts five minutes. So the three means three fives — that's fifteen minutes.

We write the time as four colon one five — four-fifteen.

Fifteen minutes is one quarter of an hour, so we say 'quarter past four.' The time is 4:15.

Now you try. Read this clock and type the time. What time is it?

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