What your learner will practice
Building two-digit confidence. Second graders connect place value to addition, subtraction and familiar everyday situations. Encourage grouping into tens and ones.
With telling time in Grade 2, the goal is to build understanding and to explain the method, not just get a number. Take breaks and repeat short sessions when needed.
How to solve telling time problems
- 1Read the starting hour and minute.
- 2Add the minutes, exchanging 60 minutes for one hour.
- 3Check the ending time on a clock face or number line.
Remember that after 12:59 comes 1:00.
Try these six examples
Read each question, solve on paper, and then check the answer. The full printable sets below provide 20 new problems each.
- What time is 30 min after 3:40? Answer: 4:10
- What time is 60 min after 5:20? Answer: 6:20
- What time is 45 min after 6:10? Answer: 6:55
- What time is 5 min after 2:55? Answer: 3:00
- What time is 15 min after 2:00? Answer: 2:15
- What time is 5 min after 1:50? Answer: 1:55
Helpful teaching idea
Move a paper clock’s hands to show the elapsed time.
Try a short warm-up, then have the learner explain one problem with a drawing or written number sentence.