Can your Freshman tell time on an analog clock?

[Anonymous]

Of course. I find it hard to believe that kids can’t.

[Anonymous]

My grandkids, ages 11, 9, 8, and 5 can tell time on an analog clock. Why would a college kid not be able to?

[Anonymous]

Kids learn this in Montessori school at age 3.

[Anonymous]

Of course, all the DCUM parents have kids who can do this (practically since infancy). It's always the other kids who can't.

[Anonymous]

My DS is wearing an analog watch that I got him about 5 years ago. He can read it. Both kids learned to read clocks when they were about 6 or 7 because for some reason it took me a long time to learn how and I wanted to spare them the torture.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For some reason, my kid with a high IQ and no learning disability or other diagnosis had the hardest time telling time on an analog clock

She finally managed it in middle school. Her ADHD/ASD brother could do that as a preschooler.

Kids are weird.

Yes, my babysitter who is going to a great medical school cannot read one. She was practicing all summer because she knows hospitals will have analog clocks.

My 26- year old DS, who is is a highly regarded graduate program, has trouble reading an analog clock. He can do it, but he has to really look at. It's crazy to me. My younger son is analog-clock fluent.

[Anonymous]

Both my 10th grade and 7th grade DDs can read an analog clock because they were taught in second grade. My youngest learned cursive in fifth grade, my oldest was supposed to learn and then Covid happened.

[Anonymous]

We installed one in our living room. Now our 5th and 2nd graders use it like second nature.

They need exposure for it to click.

[Anonymous]

Yes, we have only analog clocks in our home and teen could read the time by age 5 or 6. He cannot write in cursive though despite all my efforts.

[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.

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.

Are you low IQ? Most kids manage to teach themselves Roman numerals around 1st-3rd grade since they are often on the first few pages of books. Reading neat cursive is a completely different skill from writing it and also fairly easy. Frankly, if you are over age 12 and can't read an analog clock, Roman numerals or a text written in neat cursive, you should be ashamed.

[Anonymous]

Yes

[Anonymous]

I can totally see some not very bright kids of neglectful parents not being able to read the clock.

[Anonymous]

Yes, but they have to think about it for a second. It's not automatic like it was for us growing up.

[Anonymous]

Yes, because we have an analog clock in the family room and in my 14 year old's bedroom. I also have one in my office. I like how they look.

[Anonymous]

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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.

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.

Are you low IQ? Most kids manage to teach themselves Roman numerals around 1st-3rd grade since they are often on the first few pages of books. Reading neat cursive is a completely different skill from writing it and also fairly easy. Frankly, if you are over age 12 and can't read an analog clock, Roman numerals or a text written in neat cursive, you should be ashamed.