MAFS.1.MD.2.3 Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.
Cognitive Complexity Level: 1-Recall
[divider] [/divider] Students are able to…
- Tell and write time using analog and digital clocks to the hour and half hour
- Use correct vocabulary to describe time
[divider] [/divider] Students are able to…because teachers:
- Demonstrate hour and half hour times on an analog and digital clock
- Make real world connections to time
- Provide activities to explore telling and recording time
[divider] [/divider] Questions to ask students:
- Ask: It is exactly 5 o’clock. How can you show 5 o’clock using an analog clock?
- Sample answer that indicates understanding: I would point the hour hand or little hand to the 5 and the minute hand to the 12.
- Ask: When the clock shows a half hour, what number is the minute hand pointing to?
- Sample answer that indicates understanding: The minute hand is pointing to the 6.
[divider] [/divider] Additional Resources:
Additional in depth content knowledge
Video: Khan Academy – Telling Time
[divider] [/divider] Sample Formative Assessment Tasks:
[divider] [/divider] Resources/Tasks to Support Your Child at Home:
- Task: Encourage your child to tell the time regularly in your home. Have them tell you the time when you leave the house, when you return to the house and for other regularly scheduled times throughout the day.
- Task: Extend to have students draw the time they see on the digital clock using an analog clock.