Telling Time

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    What time is it?

    Look at the clock face and pick the matching digital time. Easy is o’clock and half past — Hard uses five-minute steps!

    Next: pick Easy, Medium or Hard!

    Choose a level. Time

    Tap a level to start - you can always try again!

    Easy

    Nice warm-up

    Medium

    A bit trickier

    Hard

    Go for it!

    About This Game

    Children read clock faces and digital times, matching or choosing the correct time. Levels grow from o’clock and half past toward finer minute reading.

    Top Tip

    The short hand is hours, the long hand is minutes — check the short hand first.

    Skills You Are Practising
    • Analogue clock reading
    • Digital time
    • Quarter and half hours
    • Elapsed-time awareness
    In the real world

    Doctors’ appointments, train timetables, TV guides and recipes all depend on reading time. This game is rehearsal for independence.

    For parents & teachers
    • Point at a wall clock at home and ask “what time is it?” twice a day.
    • Use a real analogue clock while they play.

    Who it suits: Ages 5–10.

    Australian Curriculum v9.0

    This game practises these content descriptions. Tap a code to see its full wording and other games for it.

    • AC9MFM02 (Foundation Mathematics) sequence days of the week and times of the day including morning, lunchtime, afternoon and night time, and connect them to familiar events and actions
    • AC9M1M03 (Year 1 Mathematics) describe the duration and sequence of events using years, months, weeks, days and hours
    • AC9M2M04 (Year 2 Mathematics) recognise and read the time represented on an analog clock to the hour, half-hour and quarter-hour
    • AC9M3M04 (Year 3 Mathematics) describe the relationship between the hours and minutes on analog and digital clocks, and read the time to the nearest minute
    • AC9M4M03 (Year 4 Mathematics) solve problems involving the duration of time including situations involving “am” and “pm” and conversions between units of time
    • AC9M5M03 (Year 5 Mathematics) compare 12- and 24-hour time systems and solve practical problems involving the conversion between them

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