In Spid the Spider Has  Day Off Spid sets off to meet his friends and go to the cinema. But his journey is not so timely as he planned! So help your children avoid the pitfalls encountered by Spid here are some exercises to help your children tell and better understand time. In these exercises, time is displayed in analogue and digital formats.

Converting digital to analogue time

Ask your children to draw the hands on a clock face to show this time.  In the first example, the time shown is 6.20. It helps to do the large or minute hand first. Key is to understand that an hour comprises 60 minutes, thus moving from each number on the clockface adds 1x 5 minutes, 2 x 5 minutes and so on … So the large hand should be placed on the number 4 (corresponding to twenty minutes past, or one third of the way around the dial). Then the small hand (hour marker), should be placed one third of the way between 6 and 7.

Your discussion could extend to introduce the concept of am and pm, and the concept of a 24 hour clock. So ask your children if they have heard of this or know what it is. Then ask them to convert a out the same.

AM stands for the Latin ante meridiem, translating to “before midday”. This is the time before the sun has crossed the meridian. PM stands for post meridiem or “after midday” – after the sun has crossed the meridian. There is a famous 24-hour clock at Greenwich (London), the home of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

And vice versa

In these exercises, time is displayed in analogue format, using the dials or hands of the clock. Ask your children to write down the digital time.  The first example is a relatively easy one.  Both the hour and minute hands of the clock are placed on the number four. So the time is four hours and zero minutes past the hour i.e., on the hour itself. Thus the time shown is 4 o’clock.

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