Learn how to tell the time and identify a quarter past and a quarter to. When the minute hand is pointing to 3, we say it is a quarter past. When the minute hand points to 9, we say it is a quarter to. Follow the slideshow below to find out more. There are some questions at the end for you to try.
Q. How many quarter past, half past cards are there?
Q. How do you explain quarter past and quarter?
In quarter of an hour, the minute hand travels a quarter of the way around the circle. At a ‘quarter past’ the hand points to 3 and when it points to 9 it is a ‘quarter to’.
Q. What is the difference between quarter to and quarter past?
At minute 15, we say it’s “quarter past”. Or we say, it’s “quarter after”. At minute 45, we say it’s “quarter to” the next hour. For example, at 5:45, we say it’s “quarter to six” (or 15 minutes before 6:00).
Table of Contents
- Q. How many quarter past, half past cards are there?
- Q. How do you explain quarter past and quarter?
- Q. What is the difference between quarter to and quarter past?
- Q. What is quarter past quarter to?
- Q. How do you introduce quarters?
- Q. How to tell quarter past and quarter to?
- Q. How many quarter past and quarter to jigsaws are there?
- Q. When does the quarter move to the hour?
Q. What is quarter past quarter to?
| If it’s before noon we tend to say “in the morning”. | If it’s after noon we say “in the afternoon”. |
|---|---|
| 15 minutes past the hour is quarter past: | |
| 07:15 It’s quarter past seven in the morning. | 14:15 It’s quarter past two in the afternoon. |
| 30 minutes past the hour is half past: |
Recognise a quarter as 1 of 4 equal parts of something First, your child will learn to find a quarter of a shape or object by splitting it into four equal parts (for example, finding a quarter of a cake). They will find a quarter by finding half and then finding half again.
Q. How do you introduce quarters?
Introduction
- Call the students together as a group.
- Ask the students to name the different values of coins.
- Reinforce that coins include pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters.
- Inform the students that today they are going identify and count quarters.
- Ask students if they know the value of a quarter.
Q. How to tell quarter past and quarter to?
Who has?” set comes with 24 cards to cover quarter past, quarter to, and half past. This set is designed so you can begin with any time so there is no specific start card! Use these cards to make sure your students can read both analog clocks and know what quarter past, half past, an
Q. How many quarter past and quarter to jigsaws are there?
Included in this pack are 24 quarter past and quarter to jigsaws, 16 Matching the Clock With the Time cards, 24 clock strip activities, 6 cards with time vocabulary, 4 rainbow time facts cards and 4 games which focus on quarter past, to, half past and o’clock. *There are 8 Matching the Clock With
Q. When does the quarter move to the hour?
Quarter to When the minute hand of a clock has moved from 12 and travelled three quarters of the way around the clock to point at 9, this is quarter to the hour. The hour hand also moves and is three quarters of the way from one number to the next one.
