Many people have seen those joke clocks with all the numbers missing or all the numbers jumbled in a pile on the bottom. Those clocks can provide a good laugh, but only for people who know how to use a clock face to tell time. In this digital age, more and more children are lacking this all-important skill. They use cell phones, computer screens and digital watches to tell time, but a clock face
. with numbers surrounding the diameter completely baffles them. Children must learn how to tell time using a traditional analog clock, if only to know how many minutes until the school bell signals the end of the day. There are an abundance of free blank clock faces for teaching telling time available online. Parents and teachers can access these printable worksheets to help students become familiar with this skill. Some of the blank clock faces have numbers imprinted upon them but lack clock hands. An instructor can have a students draw the hands in to indicate a certain time. Some blank clock faces come with a set of hands that can be affixed to the center with a brass brad. This way, a student can indicate several different times by moving the provided hands on the same clock face. There are also blank clock faces without numbers available. These clock faces can be especially helpful in teaching young students the location of the numbers on a clock. Finally, instructors can download and print worksheets that ask students to indicate a time shown in digital form on a blank analog clock face. This skill is extremely helpful when demonstrating that the digital time and the analog time are the same, even though they are displayed differently. It is important for young children to continue to learn how to tell time using an analog clock. Utilizing the tools available on the Internet is a great way to get started. http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/time/ or http://www.math-aids.com/Time/
