Telling Time to the Nearest Five Minutes

2nd Grade MathMoney and Time3 pages

About this worksheet

Reading clocks, drawing hands and placing times in the day split this 2nd grade worksheet for Common Core 2.MD.7 into four parts. Students first write digital times for four faces (3:20, 7:45, 11:10 and 6:35), counting by 5s around the dial as the directions instruct. They then reverse the skill, drawing hour and minute hands for 1:50, 9:15, 4:05 and 12:25 on blank faces. Four a.m.-or-p.m. events follow, and a closing challenge has Maya reading her library book from 4:15 for 25 minutes, counted by 5s to reach 4:40 p.m.

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Curriculum objectives covered

2.MD.7

“Tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes, using a.m. and p.m.”

Questions 1 to 12 tell, write and label times to five minutes, and the challenge extends into counting on from 4:15.

What's inside this worksheet

Part 1: Read the Clock

Four analog faces to convert, including 6:35, where the hour hand sits halfway between 6 and 7.

Part 2: Draw the Clock Hands

Four blank dials for 1:50, 9:15, 4:05 and 12:25. The key specifies where the hour hand belongs, not only the minute hand.

Part 3: A.M. or P.M.?

Four events to label, under the printed rule that a.m. runs from midnight to noon.

Part 4: Time Challenge

Elapsed time by counting on: 4:15 plus 25 minutes in five-minute hops.

Answer key

Digital times, hand positions and the counted path 20, 25, 30, 35, 40.

How teachers use it

Mark the hour hand

Grade Part 2 on hour-hand placement. Drawing 1:50 with the hour hand square on the 1 is the error that matters.

Count the dial aloud

Before Part 1, count 5, 10, 15 around a demonstration clock as a class. The 6:35 face rewards students who kept counting.

Challenge on the clock

Solve Part 4 by moving a real minute hand five minutes at a time while the class counts.

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