🕒 Teaching Clock: Analogue Clock for Telling the Time

How to use it

1. 1. Set a time

   Use the buttons to move the time by one hour, five minutes or one minute in either direction. The minute hand turns six degrees for every minute.

2. 2. Watch the hour hand

   The hour hand creeps forward as the minutes pass. At half past three it sits exactly halfway between the 3 and the 4, just like a real clock.

3. 3. Ask the class

   Press Random time, then untick Show the digital time so the class has only the hands to read. Tick the box again to check the answer together.

4. 4. Choose how it reads

   Switch the digital display between 12-hour and 24-hour time. Tick the nearest five minutes box when the class is learning to read o'clock, quarter past and half past.

Ideas for class and home

• Quick-fire time check

  Start every maths lesson with three random times. Children write the time on a whiteboard, and you reveal the digital display to check.

• Learning the quarters

  Step the minute hand with the five-minute buttons and stop at 15, 30 and 45. Children link quarter past, half past and quarter to with where the hand points.

• 12-hour and 24-hour time

  Show the same clock with the 24-hour display at 3 in the afternoon. Children see that the hands look the same but the digital time reads 15:00.

• Time at home

  Set the clock to bedtime or the start of lessons and ask your child to say how long it is until then, moving the hands forward in jumps.