Example 1
The short hand is between 7 and 8 and the long hand points at 4. What time is it?
- The hour is 7, because the short hand has passed 7 but not reached 8.
- The long hand on 4 means 4 × 5 = 20 minutes.
Answer: 7:20
🦘 Kangaroo Grade 3 · session 5 of 24 · 60 minutes · ⭐ Plus
Clocks, time and calendars
Read any clock, work out how long a film lasts, find the third Friday of a month and crack digital clock puzzles. The trick for time is to count on to the next hour.
A complete lesson · 60 minutes
Teach it, see it, practise it, all on this page.
Open this page with your learner and work down it, or press Teach this lesson to go through it one step at a time on a big screen. Every section has something to do.
- Warm-up4 min
- Reading clocks8 min
- How long9 min
- Days and months7 min
- Digital puzzles7 min
- Activity 17 min
- Activity 27 min
- Activity 36 min
- Quiz4 min
- Set the project1 min
By the end you can
- Read an analogue clock to the minute
- Work out how long something lasts by counting on
- Use weeks and month lengths to find dates
- Solve digital clock digit puzzles
Before you start
- Counting in 5s
- Knowing the days of the week and the months
Have ready
- Paper and pencil
- A clock with hands, or a paper one
- A calendar page
Grade 3 · ages 8 to 9 · contest level 3–4
Warm-up · think first
A film starts at 4:45 and lasts 1 hour 30 minutes. When does it end?
Show the answer
6:15. One hour after 4:45 is 5:45, and 30 more minutes is 6:15.
Teacher tip: Many learners say 5:75. Ask: how many minutes are in an hour, so what comes after 5:59?
Part 1 of 4 · learn, see, practise
Reading the clock
The short hand shows the hour and the long hand shows the minutes. Each number on the clock is 5 minutes for the long hand: on the 4 it is 20 minutes past.
Quarter past is 15 minutes past, half past is 30, and quarter to is 15 minutes before the next hour, so quarter to 9 is 8:45.
Example 2
What time is quarter to 9?
- Quarter to means 15 minutes before.
- 15 minutes before 9:00 is 8:45.
Answer: 8:45
Set the clock
Move the hands with the buttons. The digital time shows underneath.
- Show 7:20.
- Show quarter past 3.
- Show 25 minutes before 10.
Practise it
Start with the warm-up and go as far as you can. The stretch questions are meant to be hard.
Warm-up
Warm-up
Core
Core
Stretch 🔥
Stretch 🔥
Answers (for the teacher)
- 2:30
- 5:15
- 3:40
- 8:55
- 12:55
- 2
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- Part 2: How long does it last?, with practice at three levels
- Part 3: Days, weeks and months, with practice at three levels
- Part 4: Digital clock puzzles, with practice at three levels
- Class activity 1: Timetable planner
- Class activity 2: Calendar month
- Class activity 3: Clock challenge
- A 8-question quiz
- After-class project: My day in minutes
- Homework and a printable practice sheet with answers
- Teach mode and the minute-by-minute teacher's plan
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FAQ
Clocks, time and calendars: questions
What time questions are in Math Kangaroo Grade 3?
Reading clocks, working out how long things last, days of the week and dates, and puzzles about the digits of a digital clock.
How do you teach elapsed time?
Count on: first to the next o'clock, then whole hours, then the minutes left. Draw it as jumps on a time line.
How do you work out what day a date is?
Count the days from a date you know, take away whole weeks and count on the leftover days.
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