Telling time puzzles with 72 puzzles in multiple levels, so your students can review time to the hour, the half hour, fifteen minutes and five minutes! Telling time can be a difficult task for young learners, but review becomes very enjoyable with these two-piece puzzles.

Each puzzle pairs an analog clock (a clock face with hands) with its digital time (the time shown with numbers only). Children find the digital time that matches the clock and fit the two pieces together. The puzzles are simple to put together, so kids can focus on learning to tell time and not on figuring out the puzzle pieces.

With these telling time puzzles, you get

• 72 two-piece time puzzles
• Levels for time to the hour, the half hour, :15 and :45 and five minutes
• Separate pages for each level, so printing one skill is easy
• An easy way to make the puzzles self-checking

Print, cut and start matching clocks!

What's Included

• 72 two-piece telling time puzzles
• Time on the hour: pages 5-8
• Time on the half hour: pages 10-13
• Time on the :15 and :45: pages 15-22
• Time to 5 minutes (times that are not included in the other sections): pages 24-31

Please note: Not all times are included in the time to 5 minutes section, but there are 3 puzzles for each five-minute period.

Why Teachers Love It

• Simple pieces, real practice: Two-piece puzzles keep the focus on telling time.
• Grows with your students: Move from the hour to the half hour, the quarter hour and five-minute times as children are ready.
• Can be self-checking: Add matching colored dots or shapes to the back of the pieces so children can check their own work.
• Easy to print one skill: Each level has its own pages.
• Plenty of practice: With 72 puzzles, you have enough for repeated review across the year.

Skills Students Practice

Primary Academic Skills

• Reading analog clocks: Children look at the hour hand and the minute hand to tell the time shown.
• Matching analog and digital time: Each puzzle connects a clock face to its digital time.
• Time to the hour and half hour: The first levels focus on :00 and :30 times.
• Time to the quarter hour: The :15 and :45 puzzles add quarter past and quarter to times.
• Time to five minutes: The final level covers more five-minute times on the clock.
• Self-checking: Children flip the pieces over to see if their answers were correct.

Secondary Life & Learning Skills

• Following directions
• Maintaining attention
• Making and checking predictions
• Using mathematical language
• Working independently
• Building confidence

How to Use It

Step 1: Choose the level your students need and print those pages. Laminate the pages and cut the puzzles apart.

Step 2: To make the puzzles self-checking, put matching colored dots or shapes on the back of the matching puzzle pieces.

Step 3: Children read each analog clock, find its digital time and put the two pieces together. When they are finished, they flip the puzzles over to see if their answers were correct.

Materials You'll Need

• Paper
• Laminating pouches
• Laminator
• Scissors

Easy Differentiation

Children learn to tell time at very different rates. These leveled puzzles make it easy to give each child the right amount of challenge.

For Children Who Need More Support

• Start with time on the hour
• Work with a few puzzles at a time
• Point to the hour hand and the minute hand together before children choose
• Use a real or toy clock to show the same time

For On-Level Practice

• Use the hour and half hour puzzles
• Mix two levels together for review
• Have partners check each other's puzzles

For an Extra Challenge

• Use the :15 and :45 and five-minute puzzles
• Ask children to say each time two ways, such as 5:45 and quarter to 6
• Have children write the time for each puzzle they finish
• Time how long it takes to finish a set, then try to beat that time

For Speech, OT, ELL or Special Education Support

• Practice time words such as o'clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to
• Have children say each time aloud before putting the pieces together
• Use the self-checking dots or shapes for extra independence
• Reduce the number of puzzles and give extra processing time

Perfect For

• 1st and 2nd grade math centers
• Small groups
• Intervention
• Morning work
• Early finishers
• Review before a time test
• Special education classrooms
• Homeschool

Standards

These telling time puzzles support 1st and 2nd grade standards in Common Core, the TEKS (Math, adopted 2012) and the Virginia Math SOL (2023):

Common Core State Standards

• CCSS 1.MD.B.3: Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.
• CCSS 2.MD.C.7: Tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes, as in the :15, :45 and five-minute puzzles.

Texas TEKS

• TEKS Math 1.7.E: Tell time to the hour and half hour using analog and digital clocks.
• TEKS Math 2.9.G: Read and write time to the nearest one-minute increment using analog and digital clocks.

Virginia SOL

• VA SOL Math 1.MG.3: Tell time to the hour and half-hour and match the time on an analog clock to a digital time.
• VA SOL Math 2.MG.2: Show an understanding of time to the nearest five minutes using analog and digital clocks.

Add the Time Puzzles to your cart and give your students 72 hands-on chances to practice reading analog clocks. Print the level each child needs, cut the pieces and watch confidence with telling time grow puzzle by puzzle!

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