Understanding and reading times in 24-hour format (e.g., 14:30 means 2:30 pm).
Where your child meets this in real life: Reading bus timetables, train schedules, or digital clocks on phones and computers
SEAGReady breaks read 24-hour time into 3 steps, taught in order so each skill builds on the last.
Read 24-hour times from 01:00 to 11:59 and recognise them as morning times
Read 24-hour times from 13:00 to 23:59 and recognise them as pm times
Read and distinguish between midnight hour (00:00-00:59) and noon hour (12:00-12:59)
Three free sample questions from our read 24-hour time course. Every question comes with a full explanation, and hints that guide without giving the answer away.
Lewis looks at the clock on the school computer. What time is shown in words?
The bus display shows the departure time. What time is this in 12-hour format?
What time does Cillian's phone show?
This is the exact interactive worked example your child sees in SEAGReady. Step through it and watch the method build up.
Emma checks the digital clock on the school computer. It shows 09:25 in 24-hour format.
What time is this in words?
09:25
24-hour time uses HH:MM (hours : minutes)
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Emma checks the digital clock on the school computer. It shows 09:25 in 24-hour format.
What time is this in words?
The clock shows twenty-five past nine in the morning.
The key insight: Morning times in 24-hour format look almost the same as 12-hour times - just with a leading zero!
Common mix-up: Reading 09:25 as 'nine twenty-five pm'. Hours 01-11 are always morning times. Only hours 12 and above can be pm.
These are the misconceptions we see most often in read 24-hour time, including the ones our practice questions are specifically designed to catch.
Struggling with read 24-hour time? The real gap is often in one of these earlier topics.
SEAGReady finds the exact step where your child gets stuck, teaches it with worked examples like the one above, and brings it back for review so it sticks.
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