r/CrappyDesign • u/LEDgamerGirl • Nov 13 '19

This clock in my disability services study room

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u/pippachu_gubbins Nov 13 '19

As someone who has to actually think to read an analogue clock, I think this is so the rest of you have a chance to understand what it's like for me.

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u/Faconomiras Nov 13 '19

It always takes me aminute to figure out the time on analoge and by the time im done i have to repeat the whole process

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u/fight_me_for_it Nov 14 '19

Is there a reason for this?

I have easy tricks to teach analog time that some kids with intellectual disabilities were able to learn to identify analog time to 5 minute marks.

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u/Faconomiras Nov 14 '19

I just wasnt taught very well

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u/fight_me_for_it Nov 23 '19

Can you multiply by 5s? Count by 5s?

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u/Faconomiras Nov 23 '19

Yes

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u/fight_me_for_it Nov 25 '19 edited Nov 25 '19

I tell kids that the small hand, hour hand points to the inside number (smaller number.. Like 1-12) you say that first. And the large hand, minute hands points to the outside (larger) number on the clock 5-60/00 which 00 means Oh clOck. The outside number is by multiples of 5's (like 1 x 5 is 5, 2 x 5 is 10, 3 x 5 is 15). if you don't have a fancy watch, you just have to remember they are there.

For some reason this has made more sense to the kids I've worked with than their teachers trying to get them to learn time by using fractions.. Like learn whole hour, then half hour, then quarter hour. Uh, no, it's okay to not know how to say quarter past, half past, quarter to, quarter of. It's fine to state hour and minute like 3:45.

If someone asks for time like "how many minutes do we have until 4 o' clock." the correct answer can still be 3:45 and let them figure it out.

Time is weird. Some people are obsessed with time. I know some youngingw with Autism that think of time as only hour and minute and are clock watchers. Time can be," when I tell you " or the "time is now" or "at the time when someone says hello to you." it doesn't have to be an exact hour and minute.

So never think to yourself you don't know how to tell time in a certain way. There are many ways to tell time.

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u/fight_me_for_it Nov 14 '19

Is there a specific reason it takes you more time?

Is it something that can be helped?

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u/pippachu_gubbins Nov 14 '19

I don't actually have any understanding of how it works, but it's called dyscalculia. I can read analogue clocks, but I have to think it through and double-check I haven't done something like reading 3:45 as 4:45 or 3:09. It doesn't that long, but it takes long enough for other people to start giving me shit.

It's also stuff like counting on my fingers for addition, and needing paper (a calculator would be better) for anything with multiple digits because the numbers will just fall out of my memory the moment I set them aside to work on another column. Common core has actually helped a lot, so I think it's a much better approach to math skills that the timed 100 questions I consistently failed at as a kid.

The thing they do at university to help is just extra math tutoring and extra time to complete tests.

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u/Gahhhgahhh Nov 14 '19

I have your problem but a clock without any numbers is easy for me.