Clock

Basic Revision
Basics of time
There are 24 hours in a day.
There are 60 minutes in an hour.
There are 60 seconds in a minute.
A day is the time between two sunrises.
We say o’ clock to represent which hour it is when telling the time.

The hands of a clock

Small division
showing minute and
second.

Big division
showing hour.

A clock has three hands. The hour hand, the minute hand and the second hand. The minute
hand tells you what hour it is. For example, in the clock above it is 1 o’ clock. Since, there are
60 minutes in one hour and 60 seconds in a minute there are sixty divisions on a clock that
shows you the minutes and seconds. These 60 divisions have big divisions and small division.
The big divisions on the clock like 1, 2, 3, 4 etc. are used to represent the hours. Between two
such big divisions there are four small divisions.
The minute hand moves one division after every full rotation of the second hand. The second
hand keeps moving. The hour hand moves from one big division to the next big division after
every full rotation of the minute hand. For example, in the above clock the minute hand
shows one minute, so the time is 1o’clock and 1 minute. After the minute hand has reached
the big division of 12 then the hour hand will be on the big division of 2.

Reading hours on the Clock

Reading hours is simple. When the hour hand is on a number it is that time. For example, if
the hour hand is on 1 as above it is 1 o’clock. If the hour hand is on 4 it is 4o’clock.

Reading Minutes on the Clock

When the minute hand moves from one number (big division) to the next number. Example,
from 1 to 2, it shows the passage of five minutes because the minute hand has moved over
five divisions on the clock. On a clock when the minute hand moves each number represented
on the clock corresponds to a multiple of 5. Example when the hour hand is on 12 and the
minute hand is on 1 then it means five minutes are over. The time is 12 o’clock and five
minutes. When the minute hand is on 2 the time is 12 o’clock and 10 minutes so on.
In the picture above what is the time?

Answer the questions below

1. What is morning?
2. What is noon?
3. What is evening?
4. What time is half past 8?
5. What time is quarter past 8?

In the clocks shown below what is the time?

Answer the questions below
1. When the hour hand is on 2 and the minute hand is on 6 what time is it?
2. In the morning when the hour hand is on 10 and the minute hand is on 7 what time is
it (use a.m. or p.m.)?
3. In the evening when the hour hand is on 6 and the minute hand is on 11 what time is it
(use a.m. or p.m.)?
4. On which number is the hour hand and the minute hand at noon?
5. What is the time when the hour hand is on 7 and the minute hand is also on 7?