Step-by-Step Math: Telling Time
teaches your child/students how to tell time by going in order around the clock! Offering "step-by-step" instruction and lots of varied and interesting practice, this book will guide students to mastery of both digital and analog clocks. While a cut-out clock is included, you are highly encouraged
to provide each child/student with a geared clock so that the movement of the hour hand can be observed as the minute hand is rotated.
Wirebound. 128 pages. Reproducible.
Table of Contents
How to use this book
Telling Time
Time to the Hour
Two Kinds of Clocks
Time to Five After
Time to Ten After
Noon and Midnight
Time to Fifteen After
AM and PM
Time to Twenty After
Telling Time - Later
Time to Twenty-Five After
Telling Time - Later
Time to Thirty After
Telling Time - How Long?
Time to Thirty-Five After
Telling Time - Earlier
Time to Forty After
Telling Time - After and To
Time to Forty-Five After
Quarter After and Quarter To
Time to Fifty After
Telling Time - Later
Time to Fifty-Five After
Telling Time Without Numbers
Answer Key
A Note from the Author
When I taught first grade, most math books taught time to the hour, then the half hour, then a quarter after, a quarter to and then all the other times. My students, who were accustomed to digital clocks, were confused as the minute hand seemed to jump all around the clock and the hour hand apparently moved randomly in the space between numbers.
After several years of difficulty and frustration, I decided to teach telling time in order around the clock. I made sure everyone could count by fives easily. We started with the hour, then five after, etc. By the time we were at twenty after, most students had caught on and could tell almost any time. The biggest problem was a time such as 8:55 where the hour hand was almost on the nine. I explained that in five minutes it would be 9:00, but since it wasn't 9:00 yet, it had to still be eight something.
Hopefully, the order and logical progression of the pages in this book will make learning to tell time very easy for those you are teaching.
