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MathematicsMeasurementusually ages 5–6

Telling Time: Hours and Half Hours

Tell the time to the hour and half past the hour, and draw clock hands to show these times

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Try this together

If you point to a clock showing 3 o'clock or half past two, can your child tell you the time — and then draw hands on a blank clock face to show a time you call out?

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Builds on
Reading and writing numbers to 20ages 5–6Reading a clock requires recognising numerals 1–12
Telling time to the minuteages 5–6Telling time on a clock requires understanding hours and minutes as time units
What Is a Half?ages 5–6Understanding 'half past' benefits from the concept of halves
Telling Time: Hours and Half Hoursthis skill · ages 5–6
Unlocks
Telling Time: Minutesages 6–7Telling time to 5 minutes extends from telling time to the hour and half past

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Curriculum alignment

Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).

Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 ACARA · 2 NSW · 1 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

AC9M2M04high confidenceYear 2 · Measurement

recognise and read the time represented on an analog clock to the hour, half-hour and quarter-hour

NSW syllabus codes & stages only

MA1-NSM-02medium confidenceMathematics K-10 · Stage 1
MAE-NSM-02low confidenceMathematics K-10 · Early Stage 1

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2M2M04high confidenceMathematics · Level 2 · Measurement strand

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

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