How to use this sheet

  • Have a real clock with hands, or a paper one, to set each time before writing it.
  • Read the short hand first for the hour, then the long hand for the minutes.
  • Count by 5s around the clock together before the sheets with minutes.

Common mistakes

  • Mixing up the hour hand and the minute hand. The short hand is the hour, the long hand is the minutes.
  • Reading the hour as the number the hour hand is nearest, so 2:50 is read as 3:50. The hour is the number it has just passed.
  • Reading the number the minute hand points to as the minutes, so the 3 becomes 3 minutes. Count by 5s: it is 15.

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