Build your students’ confidence in telling time with our Time Detective Quarter Past Worksheets. These engaging activities focus on helping learners recognise and read quarter past times by connecting digital and analog formats. By practising this key skill, students strengthen their understanding of time to the quarter hour while also developing accuracy in drawing clock hands.

Each worksheet presents a digital time at the top of a box and a blank analog clock below. Students must draw the correct hour and minute hands to match the given time. With repeated practice, learners gain fluency and accuracy in telling the time, while also reinforcing the concept that a quarter past means the minute hand points to the 3.

This resource is perfect for whole-class instruction, small-group practice, or individual consolidation tasks. The clear layout and straightforward instructions make it accessible for early learners, while the included tips and extension ideas provide opportunities for differentiation and deeper thinking.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Recognise quarter past times on digital clocks
• ✅ Represent quarter past times on analog clocks
• ✅ Identify the roles of the hour and minute hands
• ✅ Strengthen connections between digital and analog time
• ✅ Develop fluency and confidence in telling time

What’s Included:

• Printable worksheets featuring digital times and blank analog clocks
• Answer sheet for teacher reference or peer review
• Simple, student-friendly layouts for independent completion
• Extension suggestions to broaden understanding and application

Materials Needed:

• Printed worksheets for each student
• Pencils for drawing hour and minute hands
• Colour-coded pencils (e.g. red for the minute hand, blue for the hour hand) for clarity
• Optional mini clock manipulatives for hands-on modelling

How to Use:

1. Distribute worksheets to students.
2. Have students read the digital time at the top of each box.
3. Ask them to draw the matching hour and minute hands on the blank analog clock.
4. Encourage learners to read the time aloud after drawing.
5. Review answers as a class using the answer sheet to prompt discussion and corrections.

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Use during a maths lesson on telling time to the quarter hour
• 💡 Add to rotations as an independent or partner task
• 💡 Practise with mini clocks before recording answers
• 💡 Use oral questioning to reinforce that quarter past means the minute hand points to the 3
• 💡 Send home for extra practice with families

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Encourage colour coding of hands to avoid confusion
• 💛 Model several examples before asking for independent work
• 💛 Reinforce that the hour hand should move slightly past the hour when drawing quarter past

The Time Detective Quarter Past Worksheets provide students with purposeful practice in reading and recording quarter past times, ensuring they develop accuracy, fluency, and confidence in their time-telling skills.