Curriculum placement

Grade 2. This describes the skill, not a learner estimate.

Telling time to five minutes

Read analog and digital clocks in five-minute intervals

Problem types

  • Clocks to the minute
  • Read a clock to five minutes
  • Count minutes by fives
  • Morning or evening time
  • Match a written time to a clock

Builds on

Leads to

  • Finding elapsed time
  • Converting to a smaller unit · Extend the idea

    A clock converts 60 minutes into one hour, which is the same renaming of units used for other measures.

  • Measuring angles · See it applied

    The minute hand turns 30 degrees every five minutes, so clock positions give angle measures.

  • Radians and the unit circle · Extend the idea

    A clock hand sweeps a full turn in 60 minutes, which is the idea behind angular velocity and measuring a turn in radians.

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