Max Maths, Year 2, Work Book, Reading the time to the half hour

In the Max Maths workbook for Year 2, children are introduced to the concept of reading time to the half hour. The exercises are designed to help students match analogue clock readings with their digital counterparts. In Practice 1, children are presented with a series of analogue clocks, each showing a different time, and they are tasked with matching these to given digital clock times. The clocks are illustrated with the hour and minute hands pointing to various numbers, indicating times on the hour and half-hour marks, such as 1:30 or 4:00.

The subsequent activity requires students to complete sentences about the time shown on different clocks. For example, they might see an analogue clock with the hour hand on the 8 and the minute hand on the 6, and they need to write that it is "half past eight." This exercise reinforces their ability to interpret the position of the hands on an analogue clock and express the time both numerically and in words. The workbook provides a variety of clocks to practice with, ensuring that students become comfortable with reading and writing times to the nearest half hour, a fundamental time-telling skill.