Learning to tell the time has, for centuries, been a difficult and confusing process for children. Likewise, teaching children how to tell the time has always been a challenge for parents and school teachers. However, help is now at hand.

The Aramazu Mountain Clock Method, a new way of teaching children to tell the time, solves both of these problems: firstly, by making learning to tell the time fun and easy for children, and secondly, by ensuring teaching kids to tell the time is quick and simple for parents and teachers.

Launching in January 2009 and the first new method for teaching time in 400 years, the Aramazu Mountain Clock, is proven through trials to work, allowing children to get to grips with telling the time using simple logic that they can quickly understand.

Telling the time uses complex ideas; when is a four not a four? When it’s twenty past.

The Aramazu Mountain Clock Method breaks down these concepts into a simple formula, resulting in children learning time-telling skills in MINUTES, rather than the months or even years it usually takes.

 
Children know that telling the time is an important part of growing up. Being able to tell the time gives them a “grown-up” skill, which they can take pride in and use every day. Understanding how time works helps them make sense of the world around them and gives children the opportunity to take control of their day.

The Aramazu Mountain Clock makes learning to tell the time fun and easy. Stories, games, characters and clues are all used to capture children’s imaginations and teach them in a way they can enjoy and understand. The key to understanding is introduced with the simple question – what shape is an hour?

Answer: An hour is the shape of a mountain

•    It takes 30 minutes to walk to the top of the hour, and 30 minutes to walk down to the half past
•    Around the watch face there are two ladders – a past ladder and a to ladder
•    By using the code ‘foot, foot, finger’ you can tell the time:

Foot – Which minute is the foot pointing to?
Foot – Which ladder is the foot on?
Finger – Which hour mountain is the finger pointing to?

The foot is pointing to the 23 minute step on the ladder
The foot is on the to ladder
The finger is pointing to the 9 hour
So the time is 23 minutes to 9



To support the Aramazu Mountain Clock Method, the following products will be available:

•    The Learn to Tell the Time Right Now book (for children who can count to 60) - a brief resume of the Aramazu Mountain Clock method in a picture book, with detachable practice clock and exercises. Published 3rd January 2009, RRP £6.99

•    The Land of Aramazu Story Books - picture storybooks for younger children, teaching them why time is important and taking them through the method step by step.

Published 3rd January 2009, RRP £5.99 each
Aramazu – The Land that Ran Out of Time
Aramazu - Learning About the Hours
Aramazu – Learning About the Minutes

•    Aramazu Mountain Clock Wrist Watches – available in boys and girls versions.

•    Aramazu Wall Clocks – working wall clocks, with the Aramazu Mountain Clock background.