Video Transcript
In the morning, Matthew and Sophie
started painting at different times. Who started later?
Underneath the question, we’re
shown two different speech bubbles, when Matthew and Sophie tell us the times that
they started painting. Let’s look at them. On Matthew’s clock, the minute
hand, which is the longer hand, is pointing straight up to the number 12. This shows us that it’s an o’clock
time. The hour hand, which is the shorter
hand, is telling us which o’clock it is. It’s pointing to the number
seven. The time Matthew started painting
was seven o’clock.
Now, if we look at the minute hand
on Sophie’s clock, we can see that it’s also pointing to the number 12. Sophie started painting at an
o’clock time too, but the hour hand on Sophie’s clock is pointing to the number
eight. She started painting at eight
o’clock. The first three words of the
question tell us that both of these times are in the morning, and this helps us to
compare the times together.
The question asks us who started
later. In other words, which time comes
after the other, seven o’clock or eight o’clock? We know that the hands of a clock
move in this direction, and so we know seven o’clock comes before eight o’clock. Eight o’clock comes after seven
o’clock. The person who started later was
Sophie.
