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🧮 2nd Grade · Math2.MD.C.7Unit 8: Time to the nearest five minutes

Counting by 5s on the clock

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🎯 Objective: Students count minutes by fives around the clock face.

Lesson outline

  1. Skip-count by 5s around the clock.
  2. Label minute marks.
  3. Read times like 3:15 and 3:40.
  4. Exit: show 7:25.

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📐 Standard

2.MD.C.7

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 2 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Tell and write time to the nearest five minutes
  • Use a.m. and p.m.

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Money & time to 5 minutes🕒 Interactive clock📚 All 2nd Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Time to the nearest five minutes”

  1. Counting by 5s on the clock
  2. Time to five minutes
  3. a.m. and p.m.

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