NC.2.MD.7

In this standard, students extend their work from Grade 1 where they told time to the hour and half-hour by now telling time to the nearest 5-minute intervals on both analog and digital clocks. Students are expected to make connections between skip counting by 5s (NC.2.NBT.2) and telling time to the nearest five minutes on an analog clock. 

Students should be familiar with terminology related to this standard, such as: a.m. for times from the beginning of the day until noon, p.m. for times between noon and the end of the day, o’clock to represent the number of hours when there are no minutes (e.g. 2 o’clock). 

Students are also expected to be able to write the time in digital form while reading an analog clock using a colon between the minutes and the hour. Students are expected to understand that the hour hand is a large unit of measurement while the minute hand is a smaller, more precise unit to measure time. 

*While students may draw the hands on an analog clock as part of this standard the focus should be on telling and writing time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes. If students have opportunities to draw the hands on a clock, teacher discretion should be used when evaluating students’ accuracy of the length of the hour and minute hands and the placement of the hour hand within an hour (e.g., where the 2 should be when drawing the hands on the clock for 2:30.