The 12-hour clock to the 24-hour clock

Difficulty Starter · Set 554y36

Give each answer as hh:mm.

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1
Write 1:00 am as a 24-hour time.
2
Write 4:00 pm as a 24-hour time.
3
Write 4:15 pm as a 24-hour time.
4
Write 9:00 am as a 24-hour time.
5
Write 10:15 pm as a 24-hour time.
6
Write 10:45 am as a 24-hour time.
7
Write 11:30 pm as a 24-hour time.
8
Write 1:00 am as a 24-hour time.
9
Write 1:00 pm as a 24-hour time.
10
Write 12:00 am as a 24-hour time.
11
Write 8:45 am as a 24-hour time.
12
Write 2:00 pm as a 24-hour time.
13
Write 6:45 am as a 24-hour time.
14
Write 11:15 am as a 24-hour time.
15
Write 10:30 am as a 24-hour time.
16
Write 11:00 am as a 24-hour time.
17
Write 1:00 pm as a 24-hour time.
18
Write 12:00 am as a 24-hour time.
19
Write 11:15 am as a 24-hour time.
20
Write 9:00 pm as a 24-hour time.

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 1 to 45.
53% of them fall before noon.
47% of them fall in the afternoon or the evening.
A careful solution takes 2 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 50% of the problems: the twelve hours were never added on.
Answers are a short answer exactly as the problem asks for it.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 90 different ones, 38% — so a sheet of 20 will come back to a problem you have seen — there are only so many sensible ones of this kind.

The same skill, harder or easier

We would put this in front of a grade 5 class. That is our judgement, not a standard, and it is printed here so you can disagree with it. Everything else we put in that year.