One hand is very thin and moves very fast. It’s called the seconds hand. Every time it moves, a second has gone by. Another hand is thick and long like the seconds hand. It’s called the minutes hand. Every time it moves one little tick, a minute has gone by. Every 60 times it moves a whole step, an hour has gone by. The last hand is thick, too, but smaller than the minutes hand. It’s called the hours hand. Every time it moves one big tick, an hour has gone by. Every 24 times it moves a whole step, a day has gone by.

Every 60 seconds counts as one minute. 60 seconds, or 1 minute, is the time it takes the seconds hand to move from the number 12 all the way back again to 12. Every 60 minutes counts as one hour. 60 minutes, or 1 hour, is the time it takes the minutes hand to move from the number 12 all the way back again to 12. Every 24 hours counts as one day. 24 hours, or one day, is the time it takes the hours hand to move from the number 12 all the way back again to 12, and then around one more time.

So if the hours hand is pointed between 5 and 6 on the clock, it’s 5-something, because 5 is the lower number.

For example, if the minutes hand is pointing directly at 3, you multiply 3 by 5 in order to 15. “15” is how many minutes that have passed in the current hour.

For example, if the minutes hand is pointed right in between the 2 and the 3, go first to the 2. Use the 2 to multiply 5, which gives us 10. Then, count out the number of ticks it takes to get from 10 to where the minutes hand is pointed: it takes two, meaning.

This is because the hour changed, so the minutes hand is starting over again. If the hours hand is pointed directly at 5 and the minutes clock is pointed directly at 12, that means it’s 5 o’clock exactly.

First, we multiply 9 by 5 to get 45. Then we add another 2 ticks to 45, giving us 47. We have 47 minutes in the hour.

First, let’s tell the hour of the day. Because the hours hand is between 11 and 12, we pick the lower number. This means it’s 11-something o’clock. Let’s do the minutes next. We need to multiply 3 by 5. This gives us 15. Now we need to add the 4 ticks to 15 which gives us 19. There are 19 minutes in the hour, and the hour is 11. That means the time is 11:19.