A manipulative clock is a digital clock or even a clock that can be manipulated and has movable hands or color coded components and sometimes even interactive elements that help people and especially children learn how to tell time.
Manipulative clocks can also help to demonstrate the relationship between hours and minutes and how to calculated elapsed time.
Manipulative clocks are used to teach people including children the fundamentals of analog clocks, including how to read the hour hand and minute hands and to understand the movement of the clock.
And beyond, just basic time telling, the manipulative clocks can also be used to explore concepts such as number sense, operations, measurement and even geometry.
Manipulative clocks can also help students understand number patterns and ordinality or first, second, third etc, and skip counting.
And by using of the manipulative clock to represent time and calculate intervals, students can also develop problem solving skills that are related to elapsed time.
Analog manipulative clocks are physical clocks that have moveable hands and the digital manipulative clocks have analog representations.
And some manipulative clocks have gears which show the relationship between the hour and minute hands.
Digital clocks can also be used as manipulative clocks, especially when they are paired with analog clocks or number lines.