How do you teach the time?

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DS, 7, still doesn't quite get it. Has anyone found a good way of explaining it? I've tried multiple times but it's obviously not working.

What specifically is he having most trouble with? Does he understand the o'clock? Is it minutes to/past the hour? Or digital time?

Anyway - for the basics I like to use a "make your own clock" (like this one from Amazon). With my DDs we would first make the clock, play with it. See how the hands move. Talk about o'clocks first, then half past (when the long hand is half way around the circle), then move to 1, 5, 10, 15, etc. minutes PAST, and so on.

I find that when kids don't get some math concept - making is less abstract, more real, something they can touch and manipulate always helps.

www.amazon.co.uk/Tobar-Make-Your-Own-Clock/dp/B0039ZMZGK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1445547738&sr=8-1&keywords=build+your+own+clock

At that age they can still find it confusing. If you can find a REAL clock cheap in a charity shop, or car boot sale, even if it's not working he can push the hands round.

If he can manage to understand the 'half' and 'quarter' hours, that can even be demonstrated by cutting a cake or pizza as the proportions of the whole circle are still the same!

Yes, that Amazon one looks good; or you could make something from cardboard, with a 'paper fastener' in the centre to allow the two hands to move. Make the 'hour' hand shorter and fatter, and the 'minute' hand much longer, and if you wish, make one red and the other blue, to make the difference more noticeable.

Understanding the 60 minutes = 5X12 can be left till last, as that is a bit more complicated.

My dd has been tested as highly gifted and she is 13 and has only just recently in the last year or two finally managed to get her head around time. Mostly she kept mixing up base 60 with base 100.....

Yep as others have said start with o clock then half past. Move on to quarter to and quarter past then 5min intervals. Once they have those can do 1 min. 24h clock comes last if needed. We use these games at school with great success www.teachingtime.co.uk you used to be able to play with a watermark over the screen from the website which would still work!

DD knows her 5x table. She cannot grasp it.

It's too many concepts which need to be understood together. She understands them all separately. Just not concurrently.

Currently she is going through a phase of asking Siri

She's 8.5