Analogue and digital clocks

Analogue and digital clocks

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This task is about showing times on analogue and digital clocks.
Below are the times Manaia did different things during her day. Draw what each time would look like on:
  1. a round clock face, and
  2. a digital clock face.
For example:

•   Manaia woke up at half past seven.
i) ii)
 
 
   
a)
Manaia had breakfast at eight o'clock.
i) ii)
 
 
   
b)
Manaia started swimming at school at quarter past nine.
i) ii)
 
 
 
 
 
 
c)
Manaia got home from school at twenty minutes past three.
i) ii)
 
 
   
d)
Manaia had dinner at quarter to six.
i) ii)
 
 
   
e)
Manaia fed her cat at twenty five minutes to seven.
i) ii)
 
 
Level:
3
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Geometry and Measurement, Measurement
Keywords: 
analogue time, digital time
Description of task: 
Students show a range of times on analogue and digital clocks.
Curriculum Links: 
This resource can help to identify students' understanding of reading and using a scale for the Measurement objectives.
Answers/responses: 
  Y6 (11/1997)
a) i) –
e) i)		 Hands drawn correctly on clock faces. 5 correct – moderate
3-4 correct – very easy
1-2 correct – very easy
a) ii)
b) ii)
c) ii)
d) ii)
e) ii)		 8:00
9:15
3:20
5:45
6:35		 5 correct – moderate
3-4 correct – very easy
1-2 correct – very easy
 
NOTE: If correct 24-hour digital time is given, the answer is correct.

  • Accept analogue time if both clock hands are the same length.
  • Accept analogue time if hour hand points directly to the nearest whole hour.
Diagnostic and formative information: 
Common error Likely misconception
a)-e) Various Draws hour hand longer than minute hand.
a)-e) Various Points hour hand directly at hour rather than part way between.
c) 3:25 Plots wrong analogue time.
e) 6:25, 6:55 Plots wrong analogue time.