What this lesson shows
Half the clock is half an hour. The long hand on 6 is 30 minutes: 11:30.
The worked example
The lesson works this one step by step: 11:30. Then your kid tries one like it on paper.
The steps
- Long hand on 6: 30 minutes
- Short hand halfway
- The hour it passed
Helping at home
Half way round the clock is half an hour, 30 minutes. The short hand sits halfway past the hour it last passed.
If your kid gets stuck
Where is the long hand?
Watch it with Lux
With Lux, this lesson is a narrated video and a printed page your kid works on. Then Lux helps with the same math on their own worksheet, one question at a time.
Standards
- Common Core 1.MD.B.3
Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.
Matches standards in 50 statesSee each state's code
- Alabama MA19.1.19
- Alaska K.MD.5, 1.MD.3
- Arizona 1.MD.B.3a
- Arkansas 1.GM.5
- California 1.MD.B.3
- Colorado 1.MD.B.3
- Connecticut 1.MD.B.3
- Delaware 1.MD.B.3
- District of Columbia 1.MD.B.3
- Florida MA.1.M.2.1
- Georgia 1.MDR.6.2
- Hawaii 1.MD.B.3
- Idaho 1.MD.B.3
- Illinois 1.MD.B.3
- Indiana 1.M.2
- Iowa 1.MD.B.3
- Kansas 1.MD.3
- Kentucky KY.1.MD.3.a
- Louisiana 1.MD.B.3
- Maine 1.MD.B.3
- Maryland 1.GR.C.5
- Massachusetts 1.MD.B.3
- Michigan 1.MD.B.3
- Minnesota 1.3.2.2
- Mississippi 1.MD.3a
- Missouri K.GM.B.3, 1.GM.C.8
- Montana MT.1.MD.3
- Nebraska K.G.3.b, 1.G.3.c
- Nevada 1.MD.B.3
- New Hampshire 1.MD.B.3
- New Jersey 1.M.B.3
- New Mexico 1.MD.B.3
- New York NY-1.MD.3.a
- North Carolina NC.1.MD.3
- North Dakota 1.GM.M.3
- Ohio 1.MD.3.a
- Oklahoma 1.GM.3.1
- Oregon 1.GM.C.6
- Pennsylvania CC.2.4.1.A.2
- Rhode Island 1.MD.B.3
- South Carolina 1.MGSR.1.3
- South Dakota 1.MD.B.3
- Tennessee 1.MD.B.3
- Texas 111.3.b.7.E
- Utah 1.MD.3
- Vermont 1.MD.B.3
- Virginia 1.MG.3a, 1.MG.3b, 1.MG.3c, 1.MG.3d, 1.MG.3e, 1.MG.3f
- Washington 1.MD.B.3
- West Virginia M.1.17
- Wisconsin M.1.MD.B.3