Minutes Past: Buttercup Park

It’s a breezy day in Buttercup Park! Kites dance in the sky and ducks paddle on the pond. Here we learn to read minutes past the hour, counting by 5s around the clock.

Remember: From one number on the clock to the next is 5 minutes. Count by 5s as the minute hand moves: on the 1 it’s 5 minutes past, on the 2 it’s 10, on the 3 it’s 15… all the way to the 11, 55 minutes past. We write 10 minutes past 3 as 3:10: the hour first, then the minutes.

Magic trick: Point at the number the minute hand is on and multiply by 5: the minute hand on 4 means 4 × 5 = 20 minutes past.