Hi, and welcome to Telling Time.
In this video, you'll learn how to tell the time on a clock.
Now, usually there are three hands on a clock -
one that represents seconds,
one that represents minutes,
and one that represents hours.
But, seconds are a little bit too specific, and you'll never really need to use it.
So, we're just going to focus on the two most important hands -
the minute hand and the hour hand.
Now, if you look at this clock here, you'll notice that there are two hands,
and one of them is a little bit longer than the other.
The longer one represents minutes, and the shorter hand represents hours.
Also, notice how there are 12 markers all the way around the clock.
Now, each of these represent an hour, so all around it would be 12 hours.
There are some shortcuts though.
You know that at the very top it's always 12,
then a quarter of the way down, you know that it's 3,
then half way down it's 6,
and three quarters of the way it's 9.
And that's something that you can use later on when telling time to make things a little bit faster.
So let's do a quick example.
With this clock here we just have one hand 'cause we'll focus on the hours for now.
Now, we can start at the very top at 12 and count to see where it's pointing to.
Go 12,
1,
2,
3,
4.
Or, we can just use our short cut and see that
the hand that we're looking for is past the 3 marker.
So, we just go straight to the 3 and count one more, and there you have it.
It's just a little bit more of a simple and efficient way to find the time on a clock.
Now, notice when looking at a clock that there are 4 smaller markers in between the bigger markers.
Each of these smaller markers represents one minute,
which means that when your counting in minutes, the larger markers each equal 5 minutes.
So, the larger markers can be used to count and get ahead a little bit.
Because, if you're trying to find the amount of time on a hand
and it's really far down the clock,
you don't want to count by ones.
That's going to take forever. It's a waste of time.
So, you can just count by fives and get into the right range
and then count by ones to get the specific time.
Let's do a few examples.
Now, let's look at our first clock here.
Let's start by counting by hours, so we count from the top and go 1,
and we see that's where it's pointing.
So, it's one hour. It's that simple.
Now let's count the minutes,
and we'll count by fives to make things a little bit faster.
Start from the top and go
5,
10,
15,
20,
25,
30,
35.
And now we can see that the minute hand is pointing in between the 35 and the 40 minute zone,
so we'll count the small markers to get our specific number.
1,
2,
3,
and that's where it's pointing,
so now we know that 3 + 35 is 38, so it's 38 minutes.
Add that to our hours and we get 1:38.
Let's do one more example.
Here we see that the hours hand is a little bit further down,
so we won't waste our time counting by ones.
We'll just use our short cut, and skip right ahead to 6 because we know where it is.
We count a little more, go 7, 8,
so we know it's 8 hours.
Now, let's count the minutes, again counting by fives.
We go
5,
10,
15,
20,
and we see that it's between 20 and 25,
so let's count up the specifics again.
1,
2,
3,
4.
That's where it's pointing, so 4 + 20 is 24.
Add that to our hours, and we know that it is 8:24.
Thank you so much for listening and watching.
I hope you enjoy your new skill, and be sure to practice it a lot,
because soon it'll become real quick and second nature.
It really is useful to be able to tell the time and the day.
Until next time, always be clever.