K to 12 Mathematics
Philippine Basic Education
Content: Measurement
Content Standards: The learner demonstrates understanding of the concepts of time and measures and compares objects using direct comparison and non-standard units of length, mass and capacity.
Performance Standards: The learner is able to give different measures of time.
Learning Competencies: The learner tells the time by an hour, half-hour and quarter-hour.
What time do you go to bed?
Lina goes to bed at this time:
She goes to bed at 8:30 in the evening.
How do you read time?
In order to read time, you need to remember the following:
We say the hour using the number pointed to by the short hand.
We say the minutes using the number the long hand points to. The numbers follow multiples of 5.
1 is 5 minutes; 2 is 10 minutes; and so on and so forth.
We will focus on half-hour and quarter-hour this time.
When the long hand points to 10, we read it as :30 or half past an hour.
It's 10:30.
It's half past 10.
When the long hand points to 2, we read it as :15 or quarter past an hour.
It's 2:15.
It's quarter past 2.
When the long hand points to 9, we read it as :45 or quarter to an hour.
It's 7:45.
It's quarter to 8..
Can you tell the time shown below?
