2nd Grade Telling The Time Game - Quarter Past - How do you tell the time? How can you determine what time it is? There are different things that we do on a daily basis, and we need to manage our time to accomplish everything. Telling the time will give you an advantage when it comes to productivity. Knowing which time is for playtime and which time is for your homework will help you to finish on time. When you are looking at a clock, you will see numbers, those numbers tell you different times of the day. If your bedtime is 9 o'clock in the evening and you look at the clock by then, you will see that the long hand on the clock is pointing at the number 12 while the smaller hand is pointing at the number 9. Every time that the long hand is pointing at the number 12, the time would be an exact hour or o'clock depending on which number the shorter hand is pointing. This knowledge about telling the time will be useful for when these children grow up and have more responsibilities to attend to. They will be able to know when to do things depending on their time schedule