Time - Time to the half hour - Presentation

The 'Time to the Half Hour' presentation is a collection of teaching slides aimed at enhancing students' understanding of reading and setting times that are at the half-hour mark. The lesson includes a series of engaging activities where students are tasked with matching specific times, such as half past two, half past twelve, and half past nine, to illustrations of clocks displaying those times. This visual exercise helps to reinforce the concept of 'half past' as it relates to the position of the hour and minute hands on a clock face.

As the lesson advances, students are encouraged to complete times by filling in the blanks with the appropriate hours, further cementing their grasp of half-hour increments. For example, they might be asked to determine what 'half past ____' would be when given a clock showing the minute hand at the six and the hour hand between numbers. Additionally, the presentation includes reasoning exercises where students must identify and correct mistakes made in reading the time, such as misinterpreting the minute hand's position. Through discussion questions, they explore the differences between the hour and minute hands, and how to recognize when the minute hand indicates it is half past the hour. This interactive approach not only teaches time-telling skills but also encourages critical thinking and peer-to-peer learning.