Year 2 Time: write and tell the time to five minutes worksheet

“Minutes, hours and days” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 2 maths unit “Time: write and tell the time to five minutes”, for children aged 6 to 7, and takes about 21 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Week 29 of the year, 5 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Minutes, hours and days

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 2 · Maths · about 21 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can know there are 60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours in a day.

A Look back3 min

1.
What is 10 more than 35?
2.
4 tens and 3 ones make
3.
Write < or >: 58 85

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ali wants to know how many minutes are in one hour.

Watch me

The long minute hand goes all the way round once in an hour.

Count in fives to 60. That is 12 fives.

So there are 60 minutes in 1 hour.

Now you

1.
Half an hour is half of 60 minutes. How many minutes is that?

C Your turn5 min

Each hour has 60 minutes. Fill in the minutes.

1.
1 hour is minutes.
2.
Each hour is 60 minutes. 1 hour and 10 minutes is minutes.
3.
Each hour is 60 minutes. 1 hour and 25 minutes is minutes.
4.
Each hour is 60 minutes. 1 hour and 40 minutes is minutes.

Say it out loud: What stays the same in every row? What changes?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A bedroom at night with the curtains drawn and a moon in the window

Kit says: “A day is only the time I am awake, so a day is 16 hours.”

1.
How many hours are in a whole day, asleep and awake together?

E Think deeper4 min

1.
A day is 24 hours. The hour hand makes two trips round the clock in a day. How many hours is one trip? Tell your grown-up how you know.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Minutes, hours and days · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. 45

2. 43

3. <

B

1. 30 If your child writes 6, they have halved the 12 numbers on the clock. Half of 60 minutes is 30.

C

1. 60 If your child writes 12, they have counted the numbers on the clock. Each number is 5 minutes, so count in fives to 60.

2. 70 If your child writes 11, they added 1 and 10. Change the hour into 60 minutes, then add 10.

3. 85 If your child writes 26, they added 1 and 25. Change the hour into 60 minutes, then add 25.

4. 100

D

1. 24 If your child writes 16, they have counted only the awake hours. The clock keeps going while we sleep, so count the whole day.

E

1. 12 If your child writes 24, they have counted the whole day for one trip. Split the bar into two equal parts and count one part.

Words to use

Say“Count in fives round the clock, then count how many trips the hour hand makes.”

Instead of“Just learn the numbers 60 and 24 off by heart.”

After the sheet

Draw a clock face on paper, or use a real one. Count in fives at each number until you reach 60.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

4 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Reading the Clock in Fives(with a plan)
Minutes past or to(with a plan)
Quarter past and quarter to(with a plan)
Comparing chunks of time(with a plan)

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