Practise telling the time to the nearest hour, quarter-hour, or half-hour by matching 32 analog and digital clock dominoes.
⏰ HOUR Your Students Doing Telling Time to the Half Hour, Quarter Hour, and Hour Intervals?
Your clock lessons don’t have to be time-consuming.
Instead of being a watchdog, let your students practise their newfound time-telling skills through partner and small group work with our hour-, quarter-hour, and half-hour interval dominoes game!
To play, choose the card with “Start” and lay it down in the centre of the playing area. Students determine the time on the clock and match the card with the corresponding analog or digital time.
Through this activity, students will show they can tell time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest hour, quarter-hour, and half-hour, using a.m. and p.m. (They’ll also put their skip counting skills to use!)
Differentiate and Upcycle Your Telling Time Game
🆘 Support Struggling Students
Help students who need help understanding the concepts by pairing students in teams to play. Additionally, provide access to previous assignments, posters, and anchor charts for students to recall past lessons.
➕ Challenge Fast Finishers
Encourage students to create their own set of dominoes for a partner to complete. Additionally, players can write the time using words. (For example, 11:45 am = eleven forty-five in the morning or 45 minutes after 11 in the morning.)
🃏 Upcycle Into Playing Cards
When students no longer want to play dominoes, turn this game into a deck of cards! Break out your scissors and cut the dominoes in half. Students can play games like Match It, Go Fish, or Snap, to name a few.
Easily Prepare This Telling Time Game
Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to choose between black and white or colour PDF options for this resource.
Print on thick card for added durability and longevity. Place all pieces in a folder or large envelope for easy access in your maths centre.
Don’t stop there! Your lesson plan wouldn’t be complete without these activities and teaching resources too:
Read different clock faces to the nearest 5 minutes with two difficulty levels for varied abilities. Guide your students to tell the time on an analog clock with this set of differentiated peg cards.
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This is a great resource, thanks. I've just used it as an 'I have, who has' game today. If using it like this, two cards needed to be cut and swapped - half past 9/9.15 and 6 o'clock/7.45 will work better I think. We got stuck on quarter to 8 part way through the game (and it was the 'teacher' end point, so had looped back to me too soon).
Hello Teach Starter Team, We have just played this Time Dominoes Game but have unfortunately found a mistake on one of the analogue clocks. The analogue clock shows the time 10:30 but it should read as 11:30. This is on the 4th page of the document on the 4th domino on the page. We hope you can fix this soon so we can play it again! From a class that loves your activities, 2C and Miss Campbell
Hi Prudence, Thank you very much for bringing this error to our attention! We have updated the file and it is available to download again now. Kind regards Jill