Recognise Half Past Times

What time is it? Maths time! 

It's really helpful to be able to tell the time for lots of things like knowing when it's lunch time or break time.

Let's look at some times together. 

Here is a clock.

Let's start with the minutes! 

The long blue hand is the minutes hand and is pointing to the 6, which is halfway round the clock, so the time will be half past something or 30 minutes past.  

Now we need to work out the hour!

The short red hand is the hour hand and is pointing to halfway between the 4 and the 5. Notice that it is not pointing directly at either the 4 or the 5 but halfway between them.

You can see it is past the 4. 

So the time is:

Half past 4 or 4:30.

You've got this so it's time to try looking at some more clocks!