The clock is incredibly important to master. To be able to do everything you want to in a day, it is important to watch the time closely. There are two types of clocks; digital clocks and analog clocks. Here you will learn about both of them.
The digital clock is probably the one you see more often: on your phone, the computer, or the cooker in the kitchen. A digital watch consists of two pairs of digits separated by a dot or a colon, as in the picture below. The two first digits show hours, and the last two digits show how many minutes you are into that exact hour. The two last digits go from
On a digital clock, there are two ways of displaying the hours of the day. One day is
Some digital clocks go from
Other digital clocks display hours in their two first digits by going from
Above, you learned about the digital clock. Now you are going to learn about the analog clock. The analog clock is often seen on the wall of classrooms. The analog clock has hands to tell the time. In the picture below, you can see that the analog clock consists of a dial where the numbers from
As the two hands move around the dial, they point at the different numbers. One of the hands is long, and tells the minutes. This hand is called the minute hand. The minute hand moves
Since there are
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