Telling the time is an area which some students pick up very easily and others struggle. I can remember as a kid being so excited when Mum agreed to buy me my first ever watch - it was a Little Mermaid / Ariel watch with water in the face and a starfish that floated. There was a proviso though put on this item
- Mum would only buy it when I could tell the time on both an analogue and digital clock. Guess what I spent the next couple of weeks practising over and over!
While it is great to get students to make their own digital clocks I am very much a realist and I know that sometimes a teacher just can't fit in all those wonderful activities - especially making things from scratch. Here is what I came up with for learning to read a digital clock (I find students pick this up much quicker than analogue and it helps to support the learning as they have the confidence of already knowing 'something'). This is a little kit - you could print off a set each for the students - great for whole class activities or print and laminate a few (which I did) to use in math centres.
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