Workbook for learning to tell the time for 8yo

[thequietone]

My DS1 has suddenly taken a real interest in wanting to understand time. We are working through Collins Easy learning Telling the Time practice age -7, but it goes no further than learning oclock, half past and quarter to/past.

Does anyone have any suggestions, be it book or app that goes further than this ie. learning about the minutes and difference between 25 to/35 past etc.

I just drew clocks with the hands in various positions so at the thought that other people use work books or apps.

My DD1 even though is bright had real problems learning to tell the time on an analogue clock...even struggled when she was 10!
I think it may have been due to learning when very small when the 'big hand points to 6 and the little to 3' it is half past 3 - instead of when the little hand points between 3 and 4 ...
In the end I went through how clocks work - both hands move round but at different speeds etc etc and it was seemingly a light bulb moment!
Hope that helps...

(Did workbooks at school I seem to remember...)

In the past I have used tracing paper, with a clock face drawn on two separate pieces. Clock-face one shows minutes-time, cloc-kface two shows hour-time: the two, super-imposed, show "the" time. It gets across the idea that a clock-face show two separate bits of information, together.

When that's in place, you can show how the hour hand works, and the minute hand, which counts up all the little divisions, one by one, or uses the markings beside the hour signs to count in fives.

Repetition of the hour hand counting only hours and the minute hand counting only minutes (and the hours being "invisible" to the minute hand) helps.

It sounds as though your ds is getting stuck on that, perhaps?

I also have a clock that is divided in half (to the hour; past the hour) and marked with quarter past, half past, etc. And I have given both my children watches that have those markings + the 24 hr clock.

There are loads of learning aid analogue watches around. I do think that nothing beats those being worn a fair old bit.

But then, I'm old, and fancy schmancy apps are a bit beyond me!

I can't help but feel that if he's interested, the penny will drop quite soon, just because his mind is working away at it under its own steam.

We mad a clock out of squares of card and move play mobil people round it to learn minutes.

DD1 is now 15 she still can't read a sodding analogue clock. Complicated dials on scientific equipment, yes an ordinary clock no!!!!

She's dyslexic and something about minutes to and minutes past throws her totally. I wouldn't mind, but she's good at maths and gets A* in science GCSE papers, but still insist on being bought very hard to find lady sized digital watches.

I taught my son to tell the time when he was 4.5 yrs old, primarily through using apps. At that age I can't imagine anything other than apps working for him.

First I taught him how to count to 60, counting by fives. I used a 5 times table app for this. Then I used this app with him:

topbestappsforkids.com/best-kids-apps-interactive-telling-time/

Before this I very often mentioned time to him to try and give him a general concept of time. IE many young kids can tell the time, but if you tell them to do something for 10 minutes many of them have no idea what this really means.

Some things I did were:

Phone him when I was on the way home and tell him I would be home in 5,10,15 or 20 minutes
Tell him he could play for five more minutes, then tell him when five minutes were up. Ask him if he would like to play for 1 more minute. Now he asks me.
Use the stopwatch on my smart phone very often. IE how long do you think it will take us to get to the top of this escalator? How long will it take you to run..... How long will it take us to get to school? Eat your dinner, etc.

The senteacher.org website has maths printables. One of these is clocks. (Sorry, I'm no good at links)

Secondly I know ELC did do clock faces.

Also I know my dd found analogue time difficult because all our clocks are digital. In retrospect, an analogue clock somewhere in the lounge would have helped.