Sharpen your students’ clock-reading skills with our Time Detective Quarter To Worksheets. These engaging activities are designed to help learners practise reading quarter to times on digital clocks and transferring that knowledge by drawing the correct hands on analog clocks. By focusing on the three-quarter hour, this resource builds an important bridge between half-past and full-hour concepts, ensuring learners can confidently recognise and record time in multiple formats.

Each worksheet displays a digital time paired with a blank analog clock. Students must draw the hour and minute hands to represent the correct time. The repeated practice helps them internalise that quarter to means the minute hand points to the 9, while the hour hand moves just before the upcoming hour. This clear focus ensures accuracy and strengthens connections between digital and analog time.

Perfect for use in whole-class maths lessons, small-group practice, or individual work, these worksheets are simple to prepare and highly effective in consolidating learning. Extension activities encourage creativity and deeper application, while tips for hands-on practice make the resource flexible for diverse learning styles.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Recognise quarter to times on digital clocks
• ✅ Represent quarter to times on analog clocks
• ✅ Identify the position and function of hour and minute hands
• ✅ Strengthen understanding of how digital and analog times connect
• ✅ Develop accuracy and fluency in telling time to the three-quarter hour

What’s Included:

• Printable worksheets featuring quarter to digital times with blank analog clocks
• Answer sheet for teacher use or peer review
• Clear layouts to support independent completion
• Extension suggestions for extra challenge

Materials Needed:

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

How to Use:

1. Distribute worksheets to students.
2. Students read the digital time shown at the top of each box.
3. They draw the corresponding hour and minute hands on the blank analog clock.
4. Encourage learners to say the time aloud to reinforce understanding.
5. Review answers together as a class or in pairs using the answer sheet.

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Use during a unit on time to introduce and consolidate quarter to times
• 💡 Add to maths centre rotations for independent or small-group practice
• 💡 Pair with mini clocks for hands-on modelling before recording answers
• 💡 Reinforce with oral questioning to strengthen speaking and listening skills
• 💡 Send home as targeted practice to involve families in time learning

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Colour-code hands consistently to avoid confusion
• 💛 Remind students that quarter to means the minute hand is always on the 9
• 💛 Emphasise that the hour hand points just before the next hour, not directly on it

The Time Detective Quarter To Worksheets are a valuable tool for reinforcing time-telling skills, giving students purposeful practice in recognising, drawing, and confidently reading quarter to times across both digital and analog formats.