Free worksheets · Grade 2
Telling Time to 5 Minutes Worksheet
Read eight clocks to the nearest five minutes and write the hour and the minutes in the boxes.
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Telling Time to 5 Minutes
8 questions, one page, US Letter. Print it and do it on paper.
On the sheet: Find the short hand: the number it has just passed is the hour. Find the long hand and count by fives from the top to the number it points to. Write the hour in the first box and the minutes in the second.
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About this worksheet
In second grade, children read the minute hand by counting by fives: each number on the clock is five more minutes.
The hour hand moves too. By 7:45 it is most of the way to 8, which is why the hour is the number the short hand has passed.
A worked example
The short hand is between 7 and 8. The long hand points to the 9.
- Find the short hand: it has passed the 7, so the hour is 7.
- Find the long hand and count by fives from the 12: 5, 10, 15 … 45.
- Write 7 in the first box and 45 in the second.
Answer: 7:45
The common mistake
What it looks like: Reading 7:45 as 8:45.
Why it happens: Late in the hour, the short hand is close to the next number, so the child reads that number.
How to fix it: Ask which number the short hand has passed, not which it is closest to.
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