: 15 minutes after (a stated hour) The alarm went off at (a) quarter past six.

What is a quarter of 1 time?

(a) quarter of (a given hour in time)

A quarter of an hour (15 minutes) before the named hour in time (e.g., “quarter of six” would mean 5:45).

A quarter is 1/4 of a number. There are 60 minutes in an hour and 15 is one quarter or 1/4th of 60. So a quarter past 4 means it is 4:15, either am or pm depending on the time of day!

How do you teach a quarter?

Telling the time

When the minute hand is pointing to 3, we say it is a quarter past. When the minute hand points to 9, we say it is a quarter to.

And we do NOT say “It’s eleven-fifteen o’clock” (11:15). We only say “o’clock” at the exact hour. For example, “It’s four o’clock” (4:00). Or “It’s eight o’clock” (8:00).