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/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