Are your students learning to match analogue and digital time representations? What’s That Time Game: O’Clock Matching Game is the perfect hands-on resource to support their developing understanding of time. This flexible activity can be used as a Bingo-style game or as a simple matching task to help students practise recognising and connecting different time formats.

Students choose a card that displays an o’clock time in either analogue, digital, or written form and search for a matching representation on their game mat. If they find a match, they cover it. The game can be played independently, in small groups, or as a whole-class activity, making it a versatile choice for time-telling practise across a range of settings.

What’s That Time Game: O’Clock Matching Game provides valuable repeated practise with o’clock times while supporting visual discrimination, flexibility, and fluency. This resource is available in a range of formats including both o’clock and half-hour times, in digital, analogue, and written formats, so you can easily differentiate to meet the needs of your learners.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Practise matching analogue, digital, and written time representations
• ✅ Develop fluency with o’clock times
• ✅ Strengthen flexibility in recognising time across multiple formats
• ✅ Build visual discrimination and time-telling accuracy
• ✅ Promote collaborative and independent learning

What’s Included:

• Time cards featuring o’clock times in: - Analogue format - Digital format - Written format
• Game mats featuring a mix of time representations
• Also available in matching half-hour formats

Materials Needed:

• Printed time cards and game mats
• Counters or tokens to cover matches

How to Use:

1. Print and prepare the time cards and game mats.
2. Distribute the mats and shuffle the time cards.
3. Students draw a time card that may display an o’clock time in analogue, digital, or written form.
4. They search for the matching representation on their mat.
5. If a match is found, they cover the space with a counter. Continue until all matches are found or someone completes their mat.

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Use as a small group maths rotation to target time-telling skills.
• 💡 Set it up as a whole-class Bingo game for an engaging revision activity.
• 💡 Include in early finisher tubs for independent practise.
• 💡 Use for assessment by observing student accuracy in matching time formats.

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Laminate cards and mats for durability and repeated use.
• 💛 Model how to read and interpret all three formats before starting the activity.
• 💛 Differentiate by limiting the number of time representations or scaffolding students through the matching process.
• 💛 Encourage students to say the time aloud to reinforce vocabulary and oral fluency.

What’s That Time Game: O’Clock Matching Game is a fun and flexible way to build student confidence with time-telling. It’s ideal for reinforcing key skills through engaging, low-prep, and adaptable practise!