What this lesson shows
The minute hand on 7 means 35 minutes: count 5, 10, 15, up to 35. The time is 4:35.
The worked example
The lesson works this one step by step: 4:35 p.m. Then your kid tries one like it on paper.
The steps
- The short hand: the hour it passed
- Each number is 5 minutes
- Count by 5s to the long hand
Helping at home
Read the hour from the short hand: the number it has passed. Then count by 5s round the clock to the long hand for the minutes.
If your kid gets stuck
Count by 5s to 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 2.MD.C.7
Tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes, using a.m. and p.m.
Matches standards in 49 statesSee each state's code
- Alabama MA19.2.23a
- Alaska 2.MD.7
- Arizona 2.MD.C.7
- Arkansas 2.GM.9
- California 2.MD.C.7
- Colorado 2.MD.C.7
- Connecticut 2.MD.C.7
- Delaware 2.MD.C.7
- District of Columbia 2.MD.C.7
- Florida MA.2.M.2.1
- Georgia 2.MDR.6.1
- Hawaii 2.MD.C.7
- Idaho 2.MD.C.7
- Illinois 2.MD.C.7
- Indiana 2.M.4
- Iowa 2.MD.C.7
- Kansas 2.MD.7
- Kentucky KY.2.MD.7
- Louisiana 2.MD.C.7
- Maine 2.MD.C.7
- Maryland 1.GR.C.5
- Michigan 2.MD.C.7
- Minnesota 2.3.3.1
- Mississippi 2.MD.7
- Missouri 2.GM.D.10, 2.GM.D.11
- Montana MT.2.MD.7
- Nebraska 2.G.5.b
- Nevada 2.MD.C.7
- New Hampshire 2.MD.C.7
- New Jersey 2.M.C.7
- New Mexico 2.MD.C.7
- New York NY-2.MD.7
- North Carolina NC.2.MD.7
- North Dakota 2.GM.M.3
- Ohio 2.MD.7
- Oklahoma 2.GM.3.1, 2.GM.3.2, 3.GM.3.1
- Oregon 2.GM.D.10
- Pennsylvania CC.2.4.2.A.2
- Rhode Island 2.MD.C.7.a
- South Carolina 2.MGSR.1.2
- South Dakota 2.MD.C.7
- Tennessee 2.MD.C.7
- Utah 2.MD.7
- Vermont 2.MD.C.7
- Virginia 2.MG.2a, 2.MG.2c, 2.MG.2d
- Washington 2.MD.C.7
- West Virginia M.2.21
- Wisconsin M.2.MD.C.7
- Wyoming 2.MD.7