Five-Minute Times: Clock Set One

Read the hands, say the time, then match a digital clock. A helper may read the words aloud.

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Count five minutes for each number after 12: 1 means 05, 2 means 10, and so on. Use the hour the short hand has reached or passed, not the next hour. Quarter past means 15 minutes; quarter to means 15 minutes before the next hour.

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Long hand at 9 and short hand between 3 and 4: 3:45, quarter to four. The next hour has not started.

A: short hand between 4 and 5, long hand at 3; B: short hand between 8 and 9, long hand at 9; C: short hand between 12 and 1, long hand at 1; D: short hand between 6 and 7, long hand at 11. Hours use the shorter, thicker hand. — Short, thick hand: hour. Long, thin hand: minutes. Read each lettered clock.

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From 2:00 to 3:00 on a twelve-hour clock, the minute hand makes one full turn, passing twelve number-to-number spaces. The hour hand moves through only one such space, from 2 to 3.

Question 1 What digital time matches clock A? 4:15 5:15 4:45

Question 2 What digital time matches clock B? 9:45 8:45 8:15

Question 3 What digital time matches clock C? 1:05 12:35 12:05

Question 4 What digital time matches clock D? 6:55 7:55 6:25

Question 5 Which digital time means quarter to nine? 9:15 8:45 9:45

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