Can your Y5 tell the time?

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DD was doing time problems at school last week and keeps complaining that some of the children can't tell the time and it's holding up the lessons. Was quite surprised by the fact that children can get to 9 and 10 and not be secure in reading the time.

My Y4 can, and has been able to for a while (since Y1, I think). But her Y1 sister is still having trouble with analogue clocks at anything other than o'clock or half past, though she's fine with a digital clock.

Dd1 and dd2 could tell them time by 7 or 8

Gecko is 10 and not confident. She can usually do it but doubts herself and is sometimes wrong.

She had an advanced reading and spelling age and is doing fine with maths but time telling is obviously not sometsomething that she has got the hang of yet. She'll get there.

Gecko is an awesome name for your daughter TrinityRhino

My year 5 can, my year 4 can but sometimes gets the terminology wrong - so he's say '45 past' rather than 'quarter to.' He gets the concept we're just working on the intricacies.

Meanwhile my 21 year old colleague can't tell the time on an analogue clock.

Hey sirfred
It's not her real name. She was dubbed Gecko on MN when she was newborn

Actually she was dubbed Princess Gecko Blanket

Time is really hard to learn and even harder to teach!

I distinctly recall an evening planning the next day's maths lesson and realising that my class of 32 fell into 11 separate groups!

Difficult. Like a teacher above said, there isn't much time allocated for it. Really it is something that parents need to teach IME. My dd was slow to pick it up so we did five mins work on it every day. Now she can do it fine. She's in Y4. She can do basic time problems but will probably make a mistake or panic for more complicated ones. DS was also slow to pick it up but it seemed to come like magic one day in year five and he is now very good and can do quite hard problems.

I'd say DD (year 5) is fairly intelligent but she REALLY struggled with time once the minute hand went past the 6. It seemed to blow her mind.
For her 7:45 would be 15 minutes before 7 o'clock.

I'm 27 & I struggle to tell the time!

Before you flame me, it's the ONLY thing that gives the fact I have dyslexia away!!

DS is 6 (year 2) and can tell the time.

But then my closest friend and one of the smartest people I know can't tell the time and she is in her 30's! She has digital clocks in her house.

Ds is yr2 and can pretty much tell the time to every 5 mins. He also knows that there is 12hr and 24hr clock and can convert.

Ds could tell the time accurately when he was 5 - at least his TA said that he excelled at it in a meeting, I wasn't surprised. It's one of those things that some children can grasp quite easily and some just take longer - I know a doctor who isn't sure which is left and which right, and I don't have any doubts about her intelligence. It's just one of those things.

I remember only learning it when I was about 8 - suddenly it clicked.

Millybingbong would something like this help with your dd who struggles with the day of the week? I got one for ds as I thought it might help him get a fix on time in terms of days, weeks, months... you can see exactly where you are in the week, that the week is a cycle, and see your progress through the months. (I was happy when ds commented that it was three months until his birthday, as he was using it to count ahead from where we were.) It's much better than a monthly calendar which only shows you one month at a time... I suppose it depends on how old she is though

Agree with TheNoodles.
My ds(9) is fine with time telling but hopeless with directions. He still can't figure out which is north/south/east/west.