Why is it inportant to learn time?

Because you need to know the time so you need to learn how to know what time it is

how do you do it if there is no number and just tik marks

you just count the tik marks. it's easy.

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Course: MAP Recommended Practice > Unit 24

Lesson 12: Telling time

Telling time review

Google Classroom

Review telling time on an analog clock, and try some practice problems.

Analog clocks

Time is told in

hours

and

minutes

. For example, if the time is

9 : 39

, the

hour

9

and the

minutes

are

39

. Another way to think of this is that the time is

39

minutes

after

9

o'clock.

There are two hands on an analog clock. The short hand is the

hour hand

. The long hand is the

minute hand

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

3

o'clock.

Reading the minute hand

The minute hand starts at the top of the clock facing the

12

. This represents

0

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

14

tick marks from the top of the clock. So, the minutes are

14

Want to learn more about telling time? Check out this video.

Example

What time is it?

The hour hand is between

6

and

7

, so it is after

6

o'clock but not yet

7

o'clock.
The hour is

6

The minute hand has moved

27

tick marks from the top of the clock. So, the minutes are

27

The time is

6 : 27

Practice

Problem 1

What time is it?

The time is

a.m.

Want to try more problems like this? Check out this exercise.

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why do we have to learn this on a number line? Like when ever do we need this information?
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Time is the best
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it's not hard at all it's just counting hours and mins just get it right next time ;):)
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