Can your Freshman tell time on an analog clock?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, of course. It's covered in 1st and 2nd grade.

+1 I remember volunteering in class one day, and I went over how to read an analog clock for the few kids who missed that lesson.

We have an analog clock in the kitchen that my teens use. I also put an analog clock in each of their bedrooms when they were kids. Of course, the batter has died on those clocks a while ago, but they know how to read it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope to God this is a fake post op.

OP: Nope, not a fake post. There will be a graded assignment on Friday in the class. It's really a shame that enough kids cannot tell time that the teacher feels the need to address it. However, I'm glad now that there is a need (no more phones to use as clocks), the teacher recognizes there is gap in learning and is teaching the kids.

[Anonymous]

Yes, mine had a Swatch Watch pre-Apple watch and has an analog clock in her room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

The schools have been trying to get rid of cursive for over 20 years. I can’t remember how to write it but I can read it which is more important.

I don’t even know if mine can read analog clocks.

[Anonymous]

I was surprised that this was somehow missed in schools. I discovered that my younger child—who had 1st and 2nd grades mostly online in the early years of the pandemic—wasn’t taught analog clock-reading in school at all. Had to do this myself. Check your kids for knowledge gaps—it could be anything, who knows what the schools did and didn’t cover over the past years?

[Anonymous]

My tween can read a clock, but has trouble with whether noon is 12:00 am or pm. Thinks noon is more logically 12:00 am, and then pm should start "after noon" at 12:01.

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My 4 almost 5 year old is obsessed with clocks and gets the time right on analog clocks 80% of the time. Are things really getting this bad out there?

[Anonymous]

I bought little wall clocks for their nurseries (mostly so I knew what time it was without my phone while reading etc) that are analog. I didn't want the light. I haven't realized how helpful it is in teaching them how to tell time on an actual clock. But we discuss it regularly. My 9 year old has it mastered, but my 7 year old still needs some practice.

[Anonymous]

In DCPS this was taught in 3rd grade. I'm sure it didn't stick for some kids, but it's part of the curriculum.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, but it's a dying art like cursive.

Telling time isn't "art" is a basic life skill, the basic of all life skills.

Which can be done almost exclusively these days without consulting an analog clock. I taught my child how to tell time when he was 6 or 7, but it's becoming increasingly obsolete. 50 or 60 years ago the only way to weight something was to apply various weights to one side of the scale. While that skill might still be useful in a pinch no one does it like that anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, but it's a dying art like cursive.

Telling time isn't "art" is a basic life skill, the basic of all life skills.

Which can be done almost exclusively these days without consulting an analog clock. I taught my child how to tell time when he was 6 or 7, but it's becoming increasingly obsolete. 50 or 60 years ago the only way to weight something was to apply various weights to one side of the scale. While that skill might still be useful in a pinch no one does it like that anymore.

Well....now that MCPS has removed cell phones from the classrooms, a lot of kids don't know how to find out the time. The obvious solution is to read the clock on the wall in the room. MCPS has invested in analog clocks. They work. MCPS is not going to replace the clocks on the wall with digital clocks. So the kids either need to get a watch, learn to read the clock, or accept that they'll know when class is over when they hear the bell. MCPS can't tell parents to buy their kids a watch but they can teach them to read the clock.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, but it's a dying art like cursive.

Telling time isn't "art" is a basic life skill, the basic of all life skills.

Which can be done almost exclusively these days without consulting an analog clock. I taught my child how to tell time when he was 6 or 7, but it's becoming increasingly obsolete. 50 or 60 years ago the only way to weight something was to apply various weights to one side of the scale. While that skill might still be useful in a pinch no one does it like that anymore.

Well....now that MCPS has removed cell phones from the classrooms, a lot of kids don't know how to find out the time. The obvious solution is to read the clock on the wall in the room. MCPS has invested in analog clocks. They work. MCPS is not going to replace the clocks on the wall with digital clocks. So the kids either need to get a watch, learn to read the clock, or accept that they'll know when class is over when they hear the bell. MCPS can't tell parents to buy their kids a watch but they can teach them to read the clock.

I'm not advocating that we not teach kids this skill. The fact is that it's becoming obsolete.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My tween can read a clock, but has trouble with whether noon is 12:00 am or pm. Thinks noon is more logically 12:00 am, and then pm should start "after noon" at 12:01.

I agree that noon is more logically 12:00 am, but I’d start pm at 1:00.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, but it's a dying art like cursive.

Telling time isn't "art" is a basic life skill, the basic of all life skills.

Yes, like all of us were taught to read a sundial. Honestly, we don’t read Roman numerals or sundials. And our kids are not going to be looking at cursive and analog clocks in their 30s. It is what it is. The world moves on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

+2 We have an analog clock on the wall in our kitchen and I hung one in each of their rooms from the time they were babies. I thought this might be a troll, but then I realized even my kids had to study for their weekly “quiz” on telling time in first grade. The teacher was adamant about it. DC is in 11th grade and other kids are a few years older.