Lesson 11 Tell Time with Halves and Quarters

    • Let’s tell time with halves and quarters.

Warm-up What Do You Know About …?

Analog clock. Hour hand, between 4 and 5. Minute hand, at 6.
Digital clock displaying four-thirty.

What do you know about ways to tell time? What words do you use to talk about time?

Activity 1 Tell Time to the Hour and Half-hour

Problem 1

  1. Circle the clock that shows 4 o’clock.

    1. Analog clock. Hour hand, 12. Minute hand, 4.
    2. Analog clock. Hour hand, at 4. Minute hand, at 12.

  2. Why doesn’t the other clock show 4 o’clock?

Problem 2

  1. Circle the clock that shows half past 7.

    1. Analog clock. Hour hand, between 7 and 8. Minute hand, at 6.
    2. Analog clock. Hour hand at 7. Minute hand at 6.

  2. Why doesn’t the other clock show half past 7?

Problem 3

  1. Draw the hands on the clock to show 10:00.

    Analog clock. No minute or hour hand.

  2. Draw the hands on the clock to show 1:30.

Activity 2 Card Sort: Halves and Quarters

Problem 1

Find matching sets of cards. Each set should have 3 cards. Be prepared to explain why they match.

Problem 2

Write the time shown on each clock using the words half past, quarter past, or quarter till.

  1. Analog clock. Hour hand, slightly past 5. Minute hand, at 3.
  2. Analog clock. Hour hand, between 5 and 6. Minute hand, 6.
  3. Analog clock. Hour hand, almost 6. Minute hand, at 9.
  4. Analog clock. Hour hand, almost 12. Minute hand, 9.
  5. Analog clock. Hour hand, slightly after 7. Minute hand, 3.

Practice Problem

Problem 1

  1. Write the time shown on the clocks using the words half past, quarter past, or quarter till.

    Analog clock. Hour hand, past the three. Minute hand, at three.
    Analog clock. Hour hand, almost to the 8. Minute hand, at 9.

  2. Draw hands on the clock face to show half past 5.