Teaching Hands Clock

by Silver Lining Multimedia

Product Features

• This innovative wall clock takes the guess work out of telling time by highlighting both the correct hour and minute numerals.
• The shaped hands of the clock attract your student's attention and help them learn to tell time quickly.
• Think of the hands as training wheels for an analog clock.
• A great, working clock that will have young learners telling time in no time at all!

Product Details

• Item Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0019VQ6W0
• Batteries: 1 AA batteries required.
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,006 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
  • #3 in Toys & Games > Baby & Toddler Toys > Teaching Clocks
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Product Description

This innovative wall clock takes the guess work out of telling time by highlighting both the correct hour and minute numerals. The shaped hands of the clock are sure to attract your students' attention and help them learn to tell time quickly. Think of the hands as training wheels for an analog clock. The shapes at the end of each hand help train the student's eye to look at the correct hour and minute.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent child's wall clock, September 23, 2010

By 

nial_l (Maryland, United States) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Teaching Hands Clock (Toy)

This clock keeps excellent time and is easy to read. This clock is silent. It does not make a tick-tock sound.

When teaching small children to read an analog clock the clock face looks really busy to them, full of numbers and hands and marks, and it is hard for them to relate the hand position to just one number. It gets even worse with children's clocks that add lots of colors, drawings of scenes, figures or animal characters, eyes and faces and what nots! No wonder kids have a hard time learning to read an analog clock.

This clock is simple and easy to read. Even small children understand how the hour hand relates to the number of the hour because of the helpful black circle. The minute numbers are red to match the minute hand color. I especially like the way the black hour numbers are arranged in a smaller circle inside the circle of red minute numbers. This makes it clearer to children that the "short" hand on any clock is the hour hand, and the "long" hand is the minute hand. By comparison, many clocks show the hour numbers on the same circle as the minute numbers which is confusing to children. This arrangement is much better.

This clock shows the minutes up to 59. I have seen some learning clocks which display the minutes before the hour as the minutes "to" the hour, e.g., 50 minutes would be marked "10 to". Either way is fine to me, but if you have a preference, that is something to consider.

5.0 out of 5 stars great educational clock, August 8, 2011

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Courtney Salmon (Nebraska) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Teaching Hands Clock (Toy)

I bought this clock for my K-2 classroom. It's marketed for children with autism, but I think any child could benefit from it. I love that it has the regular 1-12 hour numbers, but also marks out the minutes. Also, the open hands help direct children to the actual time. The only thing that it's missing is a hand to count of the seconds, so you can't really use it to time small amounts. It's large enough to see throughout my classroom. I'm really going to enjoy teaching with it this year, it's a great addition to my classroom.