Time
O'clock and half past, days and months.
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The short hand shows the hour. The long hand shows the minutes.
Look: Long hand on 6: half past. Short hand between 3 and 4: the hour is 3.
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1Long hand on 12, short hand on 7. Time?
2Where is the long hand at half past?
3It is 2 o’clock. What time in 3 hours?
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✗Reading the long hand as the hour.
✓Short hand = hour. Long hand = minutes.
✗Long hand on 3 means 3 minutes.
✓Each number is 5 minutes: on 3 it is 15.
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The short hand shows the hour. The long hand shows the minutes.
Long hand on 12: it is exactly "o’clock". Long hand on 6: it is half past, because it has gone half way round.
Think of it like thisShort word, short hand: "hour". The long hand runs round fast, counting the minutes.
- Half past
- 30 minutes after the hour.
- Quarter past
- 15 minutes after the hour.
Solved together
What time is it?
The short hand is just past 8. The hour is 8.
The long hand is on 3. Each number is 5 minutes. Count 5, 10, 15.
15 minutes
AnswerIt is 8:15, quarter past 8.
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