A telling-time worksheet for 3rd grade that starts at the clock face and ends in word problems. Four drawn analog clocks show 8:17, 2:43, 11:08, and 4:36, each with individual minute tick marks to count. An open number line then carries Maya's reading session from 3:14 to 3:47, and two further problems handle muffins baking for 28 minutes from 10:23 and a recess that ended at 1:51 after 36 minutes. The key counts out each interval, including the backwards one.
3.MD.1
“Tell and write time to the nearest minute and measure time intervals in minutes. Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes, e.g., by representing the problem on a number line diagram.”
Questions 1 to 4 tell time to the nearest minute from tick-marked faces; questions 5 to 7 add and subtract minute intervals, with the number line diagram printed for question 5.
Four analog faces with full minute tick marks: 8:17, 2:43, 11:08, and 4:36. Students write each digital time in the box below the clock, reading hands positioned between numerals.
Question 5 supplies a printed open number line from 3:14 to 3:47 for Maya's 33 reading minutes. Question 6 adds 28 minutes to Leo's 10:23 muffins, and question 7 counts back 36 minutes from the 1:51 end of recess.
Clock warm-up
Give only Part 1 with a one-minute timer per clock. The 11:08 face is the trap: the hour hand barely past 11 reads as 12:08 to students who check the wrong hand first.
Interval modeling
Work question 5 on the printed number line together, jumping 3:14 to 3:44 and then +3. The same jump structure then carries students through questions 6 and 7 alone.
Station rotation
Pair the sheet with a real teaching clock at a station. Students set each Part 1 time on the physical clock before writing it, which slows the guessers down.
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