Tell digital and analogue time confidently - Teaching Presentation - Year 2

This presentation provides two days of teaching that cover the objectives:

• Tell the time using digital and analogue to the nearest 5 minutes

It includes starter activities, whole class teaching, group activities, practice sheets and mastery questions. It can be used on a variety of interactive whiteboards.

Day 1 Teaching
Show a ‘Hamilton clock’, reminding children that when the minute (long) hand is in the pink it is a ‘past’ time, when it is in the blue it is a ‘to’ time. Relate this to digital times: minutes ‘past’ the hour. Count round the Hamilton clock in 5s to read digital times, such as 5:45. We don’t say 45 minutes past 5, as this is a blue ‘to’ time: 15 minutes to 6 or quarter to six. Repeat with other ¼- and ½-hour times, displaying the analogue clock alongside the hidden digital clock and asking children to write the corresponding digital time on their whiteboards. Reveal the digital display to allow children to self-check.

Day 2 Teaching
In pairs, children have a mini clock and a whiteboard/pen. Say a time: half past three. They show the time in analogue (on a clock) and in digital (written on a whiteboard). Repeat with other times. Model making times on Tell the time ITP clocks. Reiterate equivalences between ‘quarter to’ and ‘45’ past on the digital clock.

This teaching is part of Hamilton’s Year 2 More Calculation block. Each Hamilton maths block contains a complete set of planning and resources to teach a term’s worth of objectives for one of the National Curriculum for England’s maths areas.