Clock Workshop

What your child will figure out

• Identify the short hand as the hour hand and the long hand as the minute hand by directly moving each one.
• Set and read o’clock and half-past times, including placing the hour hand between numerals at half past.
• Transfer the two-hand model to a new time that requires changing both the hour and minutes.
• Read and set procedurally generated times while adaptive practice advances from hour marks to any minute.

The levels

1. Meet the short hand

   Move the short hour hand to 3 and connect its position with three o’clock.

2. Minutes make a lap

   Move the long minute hand to 12 to make four o’clock.

3. Halfway around

   Move the minute hand to 6 and observe the hour hand travel between 3 and 4 at half past.

4. Use both hands

   Transfer the model by setting half past 8 from a different starting hour.