1st Grade Telling Time to the Hour and Half Hour Worksheet Solutions (PDF)
This telling time answers for 1st Grade covers telling time to the hour and half hour (Common Core 1.MD.B.3), with a free PDF to print.
This answer key explains every problem in the Grade 1 telling time worksheet. Check the long hand first, then the short hand, and compare your digital times.
Grade 1 · Common Core State Standards: 1.MD.B.3
Telling time answers: exercises 1 to 10
Exercise 1 – Read the o'clock
The long hand points to 12, so it is an o’clock time. The short hand points to 3. 3:00
Exercise 2 – Eight o'clock
The long hand is on 12 and the short hand is on 8. 8:00
Exercise 3 – Eleven o'clock
The long hand points to 12 and the short hand points to 11. 11 o’clock
Exercise 4 – Half past two
The long hand points to 6, so it is half past. The short hand is between 2 and 3, so the hour is 2. 2:30
Exercise 5 – Half past nine
The long hand is on 6. The short hand is between 9 and 10. Half past 9
Exercise 6 – Say it in words
Minutes are 00, so it is an o’clock time. 7 o’clock
Exercise 7 – Write half past ten
The hour is 10 and the minutes are 30. 10:30
Exercise 8 – Pick the clock
Clock B is 7:00 and Clock C is 6:30. Clock A
Exercise 9 – Hands on the clock
Long hand on 12 means o’clock. The short hand shows the hour. 5:00
Exercise 10 – Hands halfway
Long hand on 6 means half past. The hour is the smaller number, 8. 8:30
Exercises 11 and up
Exercise 11 – Digital to words
The minutes are 30, so it is half past. The hour is 12. Half past 12
Exercise 12 – Which is half past?
The right clock shows 4:30. The left clock shows 4:00.
Exercise 13 – Find Mei's mistake
The long hand shows minutes, not the hour. The long hand on 6 means half past. The short hand shows hour 3.
3:30
Exercise 14 – True or false
The long hand on 12 means 0 minutes after the hour.
True
Exercise 15 – Which hand is short?
The hour hand is the short, thick hand. The short one
Exercise 16 – Digital time
9 o’clock has 00 minutes. Half past 9 has 30 minutes.
9:00 and 9:30
Exercise 17 – Liam's morning
7 o’clock is 7:00. Half past 7 is 7:30.
Wake up 7:00. Breakfast 7:30.
Exercise 18 – Practice or game?
The same hour comes first at :00 and then at :30. 4:00 comes before 4:30.
Practice starts first, at 4 o’clock.
Exercise 19 – Priya at the library
1:30, half past 1
Exercise 20 – Bedtimes
Both bedtimes are in hour 8. 8:00 comes before 8:30.
Noah goes first. His bedtime is 8 o’clock.
Exercise 21 – Class schedule
Half past 11 is 11:30, which is lunch. 10 o’clock is 10:00, which is music.
Lunch; music
Exercise 22 – Three clocks
A: long hand on 6, hour 5. B: long hand on 12, hour 2. C: long hand on 12, hour 5.
A 5:30, B 2:00, C 5:00
Key facts behind this telling time answers
- The short hand is the hour hand. The long hand is the minute hand.
- Minute hand on 12 means o’clock, written with :00.
- Minute hand on 6 means half past, written with :30.
- At half past, the hour hand is halfway between two numbers.
- A digital clock shows the hour, a colon, and two digits for the minutes.
How to use this telling time answers
Cover each solution, solve the exercise again, then uncover it and compare every line. If your answer differs, find the first step that changed and redo the exercise from there.
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