Telling time online games - Basketball telling time game

Telling time online games - Basketball telling time game

Telling time to minutes lesson for kids

In telling time to minutes, it can be a little tricky than telling time to the hour. In determining the minutes, we need to pay attention to the small lines between the big numbers, 1 through 12. Between each number are 4 small and thin lines that are called the minute lines. These minute lines represent 1 minute each line while the big numbers are 5 minutes each if the minute hand is pointing at it. So, imagine an hour hand or the shorthand pointing at 6 and the minute hand or the longer hand pointing at 12, that is 6 o’clock. But what about if the hour hand is pointing at 6 and the minute hand is pointing at number 1? Would that be 6 hours and 1 minute? That is incorrect, as stated earlier, each minute line represents 1 minute and each number on the clock is equivalent to 5 minutes. Therefore, if an hour hand is pointing at 6 while the minute hand is pointing at 1, we can conclude that it is 5 minutes past 6 o’clock or 6:05. Hence, if the minute hand moved to the next number, which is 2, another 5 minutes have passed making it 10 minutes past 6 o’clock and so on until the minute hand reaches 12 which will now make it 7 o’clock. In a minute there are 60 seconds, and in an hour, there are 60 minutes. So, in every rotation of the minute hand from 12 to 12 is equivalent to 60 minutes or an hour. As for the individual count of the minute line, you can just add it up from the big numbers. Say, for example, the minute hand is past number 1 and is pointing at the third-minute line, that would make it 8 minutes past the hour. Or if it’s pointing at two-minute lines past the number 3, it would then mean that it is 17 minutes past the hour and so on.