Math Talk!

Last week we started learning about how to tell time to the hour and a little past the hour. We made our own paper clocks and practiced this skill during math workshop. We also learned how to match the analog time to the digital time for times to the hour. 

This week, we are digging deeper to learn how to tell time to the half hour. We started today by using unifix cubes and a large analog clock to visualize the minutes and how we read the minute hand. First, we made groups of five unifix cubes and lined 12 groups of five up to make 60. Then we put the groups of five on the clock and discussed how there are sixty minutes in one hour. We practiced moving the minute hand to different amounts of minutes. This visual will set the stage for the rest of the week as we work more on time to the half hour, and matching digital and analog clocks.