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Telling time review
Review telling time on an analog clock, and try some practice problems.
Analog clocks
Time is told in and . For example, if the time is , the is and the are . Another way to think of this is that the time is after o'clock.
There are two hands on an analog clock. The short hand is the . The long hand is the .
Reading the hour hand
The hour is the number that the hour hand is either pointing to or has most recently passed.
For example, on all the following clocks, the hour is o'clock.
Reading the minute hand
The minute hand starts at the top of the clock facing the . This represents minutes after the hour. Every minute after this, the minute hand moves one tick mark to the right.
For example, on the following clock the minute hand has moved tick marks from the top of the clock. So, the minutes are .
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Example
What time is it?
The hour hand is between and , so it is after o'clock but not yet o'clock.
The hour is .
The hour is
The minute hand has moved tick marks from the top of the clock. So, the minutes are .
The time is .
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