How to play Telling Time

  1. Choose a level: o'clock, half past, quarter hours, every five minutes, or any minute.
  2. Read the time shown by the hands on the clock face.
  3. Pick the matching digital time from the five choices below.
  4. If you pick a wrong time, the game says which mistake it was, so you can see what went wrong.
  5. Hide the minute numbers once counting in fives is easy, and switch between 12-hour and 24-hour time.

For parents and teachers

The hour hand in this game moves between the numbers the way a real clock's does: at twenty to four it is most of the way from three to four. That detail is what most children find hard, and the wrong answers offered are the mistakes children usually make, such as reading the two hands the wrong way round. Start at o'clock and half past, and only move up a level when the current one is easy. The Clock game, where the hands can be dragged, is a good companion.