The minute hand counts twelve minutes while the hour hand is going past one minute.
Exercise V.
Play it is dinner time, and the two hands are home together again, but they cannot stop, for it is their duty to always keep going.
Now we find the hour hand has gone past just one minute. It did not say anything about the minute nor even point at it because it never does do that. It just went past twelve, the home hour, and then past one minute.
What did the minute hand do?
It counted twelve minutes.
Then what time does the big minute hand tell us that it is?
It tells us that it is twelve minutes after, or past twelve.
Show The Pupils That:
The minute hand gets home twelve times as often as the hour hand.