Learn to tell time easily with myBlee Math! Discover fun and interactive exercises to practice recognizing hours, minutes, and clock faces.
Learning to Tell Time with Fun Math Exercises
Learning to tell time is one of the essential math skills taught from primary school. To help children master this concept, myBlee Math offers a series of math exercises that are both fun and progressive.
Available as PDFs and easy to print, these worksheets allow students to practice recognizing hours and minutes, understanding how analog clocks and digital clocks work, and connecting time concepts to real-life situations.
With a clear and interactive approach, students build autonomy and confidence. It’s a fun and educational way to practice telling time at their own pace, at home or at school.
Understanding the Clock’s Structure to Read Time Better
Before learning to read the exact time, it’s important to understand how a clock is structured and how it works.
It is divided into 12 hours, represented by the numbers from 1 to 12, corresponding to the hours of half a day.
The long hand shows the minutes and makes a full turn of the dial in 60 minutes, or one complete hour, while the short hand moves from one number to the next with each rotation.
This visual reference helps children connect the movement of the hands with the idea of duration. By practicing regularly with educational clocks, students learn to read and understand time in a concrete and logical way.
Exercises to Learn to Tell Time for Every Level
The exercises offered by myBlee Math are designed for all primary school students, whether they’re just beginning to tell time in Grade 2 or improving their skills to tell time in Grade 3. Each worksheet follows a clear progression: first reading full hours, then identifying half-hours, quarter hours, and finally minutes.
Through interactive math games and math videos available on our YouTube channel, children practice recognizing the hands, understanding the passage of time, and connecting analog and digital clocks.
This concrete and visual method makes learning to tell time simpler, more motivating, and more accessible for everyone—whether in class or at home through the math app myBlee Math.
Discover the appFrequently Asked Questions About Learning to Tell Time
How do you read the time on a clock?
To read the time on a clock, look at the two hands: the short one shows the hours, the long one the minutes. Each number represents one hour, and each space between numbers equals five minutes. Combining both gives you the exact time shown.
What is the best technique to learn to tell time?
The best way to learn to tell time is step by step: start with full hours, then half and quarter hours, and finally minutes. Using a learning clock helps children visualize the movement of the hands and understand how time passes.
How do you read morning and afternoon times?
To read morning and afternoon times, use the 12-hour or 24-hour format. In the morning, you simply say “8 o’clock” for 8:00. In the afternoon, you can say “14 o’clock” in the 24-hour format or “2 o’clock in the afternoon” in the 12-hour format.