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Practise Telling the Time for Half Past, o'clock and Quarter Past

In this worksheet, students will be reading clocks showing half past, o'clock and quarter past.

'Practise Telling the Time for Half Past, o'clock and Quarter Past ' worksheet

Key stage:  KS 1

Year:  Year 1 Maths worksheets

Curriculum topic:   Measurement

Curriculum subtopic:   Tell the Time

Difficulty level:  

Worksheet Overview

In this activity, we will be looking at o'clock, half past, and quarter past times in both digital and analogue. 

 

Analogue means times on a clock face, like this:

 

  analogue clock 

 

Digital means times just written in numbers, like this:

 

  digital clock

 

O'clock 

On analogue, o'clock has the minute hand (which is the longer, blue hand) pointing to the 12 and the hour hand (which is the shorter, red hand) pointing to the hour. 

 

Here, we have 9 o'clock where the minute hand is at 12 to show o'clock and the hour hand is at 9 to show it is 9 o'clock. 

 

 clock showing 9 o'clock 

 

On a digital clock, this would be written:

9:00 

This means that the hour is 9 and that zero minutes have gone past the hour, meaning it is o'clock. 

 

Half past 

On analogue, half past has the minute hand (which is the longer, blue hand) pointing down to the 6 and the hour hand (which is the shorter, red hand) pointing just past the hour. 

 

Here, we have half past 3 where the minute hand is at six to show that it has gone halfway past the hour and the hour hand is just past the three to show that it has gone halfway past 3. 

 

 clock showing half past 3 

 

On a digital clock, this would be written: 

 3:30 

 

This means that the hour is 3 and that 30 minutes have gone past the hour, meaning it is half past three. 

 

Quarter past 

On analogue, quarter past has the minute hand (which is the longer, blue hand) pointing at the 3 to show it has gone a quarter past the hour. The hour hand (which is the shorter, red hand) is pointing just past the hour. 

 

Here, we have quarter past 4 where the minute hand is at 3 to show it has gone a quarter past the hour and the hour hand is just past the four to show it has gone a quarter of the way past the four. 

 

 quarter past 4 

 

On a digital clock, this would be written: 

4:15

This means that the hour is 4 and that 15 minutes have gone past the hour, meaning it is a quarter past four. 

 

Ok, shall we have a go at some questions now? 

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