Telling time worksheets

The hour hand is the one that gets read wrong, and this sheet does not help by cheating it: at twenty-five to four it is drawn most of the way round to four, exactly where it would be on a real clock, rather than parked on the three. A child who has only seen dials where the short hand points straight at a numeral is being taught something that is not true of any clock in the house.

Five minutes is the middle of five settings. O'clock, half past and the quarters come first; the minute-by-minute dial comes later, and it is a genuinely harder sheet rather than the same one with more clocks. The builder moves between them without changing anything else about the page.

The answers were worked out when the problems were, so the key is the same page with the answers drawn in rather than a second attempt at the same questions — there is no way for the two to disagree. The number in the footer is the seed the sheet was built from: it is printed so that the identical sheet can be had again next week, rather than one that merely looks like it.

This page is one sheet out of a family that can print thousands, and the settings behind it — how many problems, how big the numbers get, how they are laid out, whether there is room to work — are all switches. The builder link at the top of the page carries this sheet’s own settings, so the bench opens on exactly the sheet here rather than on a blank one.

The configuration travels in the address bar rather than on a server, so the link can be bookmarked or sent to somebody as it stands — and what they open is this sheet, down to the seed, rather than another one like it.

Not in the games — a clock face is a picture rather than a card to type an answer to, which is why it is paper.