2nd Grade Quarter Past and Quarter To Worksheet
Read each clock showing quarter past (15 minutes) or quarter to (45 minutes) the hour.
- Homework
- Centers
- Review
- Intervention
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- Grade
- 2nd Grade
- Subject
- Math
- Skill
- Telling Time
- Topic
- telling time to the quarter hour
- Difficulty
- Standard
- Time
- 12 minutes
- Pages
- 2 (incl. answer key)
- Format
- Printable PDF (US Letter)
- Answer key
- Included
- Best for
- homework, centers, review, intervention
Worksheet details
What This Worksheet Practices
Students will read clocks showing quarter past (15 minutes) and quarter to (45 minutes).
- Reading quarter past (minute hand on 3)
- Reading quarter to (minute hand on 9)
- Naming the correct hour
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Quarter past and quarter to
A quarter of an hour is 15 minutes. Quarter past means 15 minutes after the hour, with the minute hand on the 3. Quarter to means 15 minutes before the next hour, with the minute hand on the 9 — and the trick is that the hour you say is the next one coming up (quarter to 8, not 7).
How to use it
Have students read the minute hand (on 3 = quarter past; on 9 = quarter to), then the hour. Counting by fives to the minute hand confirms 15 or 45. Builds on time to the half hour and leads to time to 5 minutes.
👩🏫 Teacher note
Quarter past is 15 minutes (minute hand on 3); quarter to is 45 minutes (minute hand on 9), and the hour is the NEXT hour coming up. Counting by fives confirms the minutes.
🏠 Parent note
Quarter past means 15 minutes after; quarter to means 15 minutes before the next hour.
Common Mistakes to Watch For
- Saying the wrong hour at quarter to
- Confusing the minute hand at 3 (quarter past) and 9 (quarter to)
Answer Key
Each answer shows the time in hours:minutes.
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