time


  • Telling Time in 2nd Half Hour

    Telling Time in 2nd Half Hour

    When the minute hand passes 30 minutes and approaches a full hour, the hour hand gets closer to the next hour. This can be problematic for students. Many see the hour hand close to the next hour and think that is the hour. This post presents an approach to address this with students. At vs…


  • Customized Number Lines for Handouts

    Customized Number Lines for Handouts

    Per request, I created a short video showing how I create customized number lines on WORD. This post also includes a link to a WORD document with 3 customized number lines: time, money with negatives, and miles. Elapsed time The image below is from a post on elapsed time. I wanted to create different time…


  • Elapsed Time with Number Line and Clocks

    Elapsed Time with Number Line and Clocks

    Telling time is challenging for many students. This is likely a function of the abstract nature of time is. You cannot see or touch it. You experience observe it through a clock. Elapsed time is more abstract and challenging. An entry point to elapsed time may be student experience with walking from one point to…


  • Time on an Analog Clock – a Chunked Approach

    Time on an Analog Clock – a Chunked Approach

    Telling time on an analog clock is challenging for many students, especially some with special needs. I worked with a middle school student with a disability one summer and after a few lessons he scored 100% over two days on telling time. Below shows the progression I used with him. I used a task analysis…


  • Elapsed Time Part 2 – IEP Objective

    Elapsed Time Part 2 – IEP Objective

    I previously posted a scaffolded handout and (subsequently posted) for identifying elapsed time between times on a pair of presented clocks (see image below of a page from the handout.) A parent asked for a possible IEP objective. Here is one, along with some explanation. Let’s start with a real life scenario many of our…