Can your Freshman tell time on an analog clock?
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Anonymous
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DS attends an MCPS HS that has gone no cell phone during class. For the first day of school activity, the teacher for foundation. of tech taught the kids to read the clock on wall. Apparently they practiced quite a bit in class. DS said there were a number of kids that had no idea how to tell time. I give a lot of credit to the teacher for using day 1 to teach a practical skill.
Can your kid read an analog clock? |
Anonymous
| My kids can, 9th and 6th grade - but my younger DC is not good at it. I bought her an analog watch and she is getting better at it. My kids are aware that their friends and classmates cannot read an analog clock, although there has been one in all of their classrooms since kindergarten. |
Anonymous
| Yes, but it's a dying art like cursive. |
Anonymous
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My 10th grader and senior were both taught cursive, in school, pre-covid. And they can tell time on clocks (also taught in school).
My 8tn grader was not taught to read or write cursive, or how to tell time on a clock. Who know what else they weren't taught that the older two know. |
Anonymous
| My 10th and 7th grader can. In part because we spent some time at home with the digital clocks covered so they’d forced to learn. We’re not analog crazy but the older one has dyslexia and the younger one ADHD and it helps them visualize time a little better. |
Anonymous
| So-so. If all numbers are on the circle, then yes. If there are no numbers, where you have to imagine quarters - my own wristwatch is one like that - then barely. |
Anonymous
| I hope to God this is a fake post op. |
Anonymous
Telling time isn't "art" is a basic life skill, the basic of all life skills. |
Anonymous
| Yes. We have one in the kitchen and in the family room of our house. DS15 can read the clock and is in charge of changing the time 2x a year. Older ds is in the military so we are practicing military time now. |
Anonymous
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Yes, I believe this.
It's surprising but if you really think about it, why is that? Kids don't know what they don't know. I encountered a kid yesterday who said something shocking in this vein to me and then I thought "yeah but why would that know that if no one told them?" This is what equity is. If it takes a few minutes to ensure everyone is on the same page so they can be aware and on time, this is what we have to do. I doubt they're doing to be doing clock lessons for 5 hours each month. It's fine. I teach college and spend probably an hour to two each semester doing some basic skills reinforcement. It benefits some of my students immensely and the ones who already know these things help out by contributing knowledge, talking to others, or maybe politely scrolling their phones. It's fine. It's good. We should be glad they're doing this, even if we're dismayed how we got here. |
Anonymous
| Why would anyone be surprised? Can you tell analog time when the numbers are not there? I'm European, so we're used to more math, but I can tell you that shop assistants here think that 1/4 is more than 1/3. |
Anonymous
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Yeah, he can, if you give him a second (see what I did??).
We're working on the 24 hour clock too. |
Anonymous
| Yes but only because we taught and reinforced at home. No thanks to the school. |
Anonymous
| Yes, of course. It's covered in 1st and 2nd grade. |
Anonymous
| My kids learned in 1st grade, public school. Never forgot or needed to be retaught. Is OP for real? |