Does your teen read a hand clock ?

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My 14 year old sounded insulted when I asked her. She said that the only clocks in classrooms are analog, so of course everyone knows to tell time.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine can. But we have analog clocks all around our house.

I think the “skill” is going the way of cursive for most.

Pretty sure schools sill have analog clocks.

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Of course they know how. There is an analog clock face on their home screens.

Hand clock?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not taught well in elementary any more. It was barely introduced in 1st grade and then deemphasized due to Covid, never to be taught again.

My daughter is learning it in first grade now in APS. We don’t have any analog clocks in our house, so she won’t use it much.

I bought a bunch of them after our cable boxes ceased having clocks. Great by-product both kids know how to use an analog clock. Also asked the 8 year old to show me how he 'drives' and asked him where 10 and 2 are. He understood conceptually, but definitely did 9 and 3.

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Anonymous wrote:FYI... when you're teaching your kids to drive, the proper hand position is now 8 and 4.

This is what the VA driving manual teaches and what both of my kids learned from their BTW instructors. They were specifically told not to use 10 and 2 if they wanted to pass the road test, even if that’s how their parents drove.

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Anonymous wrote:FYI... when you're teaching your kids to drive, the proper hand position is now 8 and 4.

This is what the VA driving manual teaches and what both of my kids learned from their BTW instructors. They were specifically told not to use 10 and 2 if they wanted to pass the road test, even if that’s how their parents drove.

And to say in topic I meant to say that both of my kids can read an analog clock.

[Anonymous]

High school teacher here. We have to make sure to use digital exam clocks in the rooms where we administer AP exams because so many kids can't read "hand clocks."

I've been teaching 17 years. This is something I've only seen on such a large scale within the past five years or so.

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Anonymous wrote:Now she does, at 14! It took an astonishingly long time, and she has no special needs of any kind. My other kid with special needs could read an analog clock from early elementary!

It's weird what kids decide they can't or won't do, when they most certainly can

What were you doing all of those years?

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Anonymous wrote:I thought you put your hands lower now.

It's dumb. My teen tries to put his hands at 7 and 4. I tried it and can't drive like that. I don't know why they keep changing teaching methods and making things worse.

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I meant 8 and 4. It uses the weak inner elbow muscles instead of the stronger upper elbow muscles.

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Yes.

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When my kids were young, I bought inexpensive wall numerical clocks for their bedroom walls. Get them used to it early.

[Anonymous]

I typically drive with only one hand on the steering wheel. The only time I did 10 and 2 was during the driver’s exam.

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Anonymous wrote:Does your teen know how to read a clock? Drivers Ed teachers and I lost count on the numbers of kids don't know when I tell them to place their hands on 10 and 2.

Huh? Of course they do. I made sure we always had a clock hung in our kitchen. All 4 of my kids were also taught in school in 1st grade with endless handouts. BTW, it is called an analog clock.

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My 11 yo can tell time - things like "quarter till" were extensively covered in math, btw - but that doesn't naturally translate to thinking of every circle as a clock face. I think explaining it that way is influenced by military practices and is a little like using sports analogies to describe non-sports things: people can figure it out, but it's not the universally understood reference that it used to be.