Possible Origins and Related Issues
Some students have become confused when telling the time by the poor learning of time relationships and concepts in their past studies. Harris (2008) believes that students find difficulty in telling the time on an analogue clock because students:
Harris (2008) also believes that the identification of analogue clock parts causes students to become confused when telling the time. For example not knowing which is the hour hand. In addition to this, students were not shown the relationship between analogue and digital clocks and how each clock can represent the same time differently.
- find it hard to ignore the second hand
- find the rotation of the hands a difficult concept to understand
- find identifying the hour hand and the minute hand from each other to be hard
- find understanding the meaning of after and before the hour number confusing
- find the understanding of the minute hand pointing to 2 for example actually means 10 minutes
Harris (2008) also believes that the identification of analogue clock parts causes students to become confused when telling the time. For example not knowing which is the hour hand. In addition to this, students were not shown the relationship between analogue and digital clocks and how each clock can represent the same time differently.