Telling Time Worksheets: Five-Minute Intervals
Use a clock with movable hands to teach time to the nearest five minutes.
Teaching notes for parents and teachers
How to teach it
Count by fives around the clock with your student. Then point out which hour the short hand has passed, especially when it is close to the next hour.
Example to work through together
Use the model below as you explain the example. Have your student point to the quantities as you discuss them.
4:20: the long hand points to 4. Count 5, 10, 15, 20. The short hand is just past 4, so the time is 4:20.
Ask your student
At 7:55, has the hour hand reached 8 yet?
If your student needs help
If the student reads the face number as minutes, count the five-minute intervals from 12 together.
Choosing and using the worksheet
Each set contains six distinct times. Minutes range from :00 through :55 in five-minute steps, including hours and half hours when selected. The clock drawings show twelve face numbers and two hands. Sets do not guarantee every minute value.
This activity covers reading an analog clock and recording a digital time. A clock face alone cannot determine AM or PM. Choosing AM or PM from a daily-life context, drawing hands, and calculating elapsed time are not assessed here.
Make a practice set
Select the worksheet, answer key, or both. When both are selected, the answer key prints after the questions. Keep it separate if you want your student to work independently.
After your student finishes
Ask the child to justify both parts of one answer: where the long hand points and which hour the short hand has passed.
Picture activityTelling Time: Hours and Half Hours
Read analog clocks and write the time to the hour or half hour.
6 problems · Answer key included
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Grade 2 selected skill connection: 2.MD.C.7. See the Common Core standards for this grade. This worksheet does not cover every requirement in the standard.