What this lesson shows
The short hand points to 3 and the long hand to 12: 3:00 on both clocks.
The worked example
The lesson works this one step by step: 3:00. Then your kid tries one like it on paper.
The steps
- Short hand: the hour
- Long hand on 12
- Write it with :00
Helping at home
The short hand points to the hour. When the long hand is on 12, it is exactly that hour: write the hour, then :00.
If your kid gets stuck
Where is the short hand?
Watch it with Lux
With Lux, this lesson is a narrated video and a printed page your kid works on. Then Lux helps with the same math on their own worksheet, one question at a time.
Standards
- Common Core 1.MD.B.3
Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.
Matches standards in 50 statesSee each state's code
- Alabama MA19.1.19
- Alaska K.MD.5, 1.MD.3
- Arizona 1.MD.B.3a
- Arkansas 1.GM.5
- California 1.MD.B.3
- Colorado 1.MD.B.3
- Connecticut 1.MD.B.3
- Delaware 1.MD.B.3
- District of Columbia 1.MD.B.3
- Florida MA.1.M.2.1
- Georgia 1.MDR.6.2
- Hawaii 1.MD.B.3
- Idaho 1.MD.B.3
- Illinois 1.MD.B.3
- Indiana 1.M.2
- Iowa 1.MD.B.3
- Kansas 1.MD.3
- Kentucky KY.1.MD.3.a
- Louisiana 1.MD.B.3
- Maine 1.MD.B.3
- Maryland 1.GR.C.5
- Massachusetts 1.MD.B.3
- Michigan 1.MD.B.3
- Minnesota 1.3.2.2
- Mississippi 1.MD.3a
- Missouri K.GM.B.3, 1.GM.C.8
- Montana MT.1.MD.3
- Nebraska K.G.3.b, 1.G.3.c
- Nevada 1.MD.B.3
- New Hampshire 1.MD.B.3
- New Jersey 1.M.B.3
- New Mexico 1.MD.B.3
- New York NY-1.MD.3.a
- North Carolina NC.1.MD.3
- North Dakota 1.GM.M.3
- Ohio 1.MD.3.a
- Oklahoma 1.GM.3.1
- Oregon 1.GM.C.6
- Pennsylvania CC.2.4.1.A.2
- Rhode Island 1.MD.B.3
- South Carolina 1.MGSR.1.3
- South Dakota 1.MD.B.3
- Tennessee 1.MD.B.3
- Texas 111.3.b.7.E
- Utah 1.MD.3
- Vermont 1.MD.B.3
- Virginia 1.MG.3a, 1.MG.3b, 1.MG.3c, 1.MG.3d, 1.MG.3e, 1.MG.3f
- Washington 1.MD.B.3
- West Virginia M.1.17
- Wisconsin M.1.MD.B.3