The space between each number on a clock contains five minutes. You can say a time to the nearest minute by checking exactly where the minute hand is. Let's look at some examples. We can see the ...

so there are 12 × 5 = 60 minutes in an hour. Let's use this knowledge to tell the time on the clocks below. This clock shows 5 minutes past 2 o'clock, or ' 5 past 2 '. This clock shows 20 minutes ...