MathsYear 3Measurement
meas y3 time
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What you'll learn
- 1
Imagine a big clock on your wall. The long hand is the minute hand and the short hand is the hour hand.
- 2
Which hand on a clock tells you the hour?
- 3
Set the clock to 3 o'clock — the short hand on 3, the long hand on 12.
- 4
Let's read a time together — 4:15. That's quarter past 4.
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Now you try! Set the clock to quarter past 7 (7:15).
- 6
The long hand points to the 2. How many minutes is that? (Hint: count in 5s!)
- 7
What time is it when the short hand is just past the 6 and the long hand is on the 6?
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