KS1 Maths textbook

Chapter 7: Time

  • Strand Measurement: time
  • Level Year 2
  • Practice 91 questions with step-by-step solutions

National Curriculum for England, Key Stage 1 mathematics, Year 2. Content: Compare and sequence intervals of time, Tell and write the time to five minutes, including quarter past and quarter to the hour, Draw the hands on a clock face to show a time, Know the number of minutes in an hour and the number of hours in a day.

Open Year 2 chapter

By the end of this chapter you will be able to

  • Know there are 60 minutes in 1 hour and 24 hours in 1 day
  • Tell and write the time to five minutes, including quarter past and quarter to
  • Draw the long hand and the short hand to show a time
  • Say which of two times is earlier or later
  • Find how many minutes pass between two times
  • Work out an end time when I know the start time and how long something lasts

You should already know

  • Telling the time to the hour and half past the hour (Year 1, Chapter 13)
  • Counting in fives and tens (Chapters 1 and 3)
  • Comparing and ordering numbers to 100 (Chapter 1)

Where this leads

  • Telling the time to the minute, and using 12-hour and 24-hour clocks (Year 3)
  • Measuring and comparing time in seconds, minutes and hours (Year 3)

Lessons in this chapter

  1. 7.1 Minutes in an hour and hours in a day
  2. 7.2 Telling the time past the hour in fives
  3. 7.3 Telling the time to the hour
  4. 7.4 Drawing the hands on a clock face
  5. 7.5 Comparing and ordering times
  6. 7.6 Timetables and how long things last
  7. Summary and key words
  8. Check-up and end-of-chapter quiz

Read the whole chapter on one page (good for printing).

Practise with real exam questions

The DfE publishes the old KS1 tests, with mark schemes, for free. They are optional for schools now, so use them as extra practice.

KS1 Maths past papers