Arithmetic Grade Three

Lesson One hundred sixty-one: Time In Five Minute Intervals

Time In Five Minute Intervals

What time is it? 


  
  TIME: 5:55
  
	  The hour hand is between the five and the six and
	so you know it is five something. To find out how many
	minutes past five it is you count by five until you
	get to eleven (where the minute hand is pointing) and
	you get 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55.

  


  
  TIME: 11:15

	  The hour hand is just past the eleven. The minute
	hand is on the three. So count by fives three times
	and you get 5, 10, 15.
You need to notice that the hour hand moves as the minute hand moves. It just moves A LOT slower. In the time the minute hand goes all the way around the face of the clock, the hour hand moves from one number to the next.

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