Problem
The hour hand is between 8 and 9, so 9 o'clock hasn't arrived yet — the hour is 8.
The hour hand crawls from one number to the next over a whole hour. Being between 8 and 9 means it has left 8 but hasn't reached 9 yet — so the whole gap still counts as the 8 o'clock hour.
2.MD.C.7Draw A DiagramTimeBecause the hour hand sits between the 8 and the 9, the clock is still inside the 8 o'clock hour, so the hour reads 8.
The hour hand crawls slowly from one number to the next while a single hour goes by, so resting between the 8 and the 9 means it has already left the 8 but has not yet arrived at the 9.
Arriving exactly on the 9 is the moment that ends the whole hour running from 8 to 9, and since the hand has not arrived there, that hour has started but is not finished.
The stretch from 8 to 9 is one whole hour built out of all its little minute steps, and the hand only reaches the 9 once every one of those minute parts has been crossed.
Counting by 5s from 12 to 9 gives 45 minutes, plus 3 ticks makes 48 minutes.
Each big number is 5 minutes apart, so counting by 5s nine times from 12 to 9 gives 45 minutes; each small tick is 1 minute, so adding 3 ticks makes 48.
2.MD.C.7Look For A PatternTimeThe hour is 8 and the minutes are 48, so the time is 8:48.
Putting together the hour read from the short hand and the minutes read from the long hand gives the one time the whole clock shows.
2.MD.C.7Draw A DiagramTimeWhen the hour hand sits between two numbers, the hour is the smaller one. Skip-count by 5s and add the extra ticks to get the exact time.