How would you answer this 1st grade test question. Explain your reasoning.

[csziggy]

127. Oh, how well I know the part about a clock with a face!

When I was a very young kid we had what is called a flip clock. If you Google "vintage flip clock" one just sold on Etsey very much like the one my parents had.

It looked like a digital clock, but flipped numbers over to tell the time. We had regular dial clocks at various points in the house, but the flip clock was the one in the family room and the one I learned to tell time by. It was hard to learn to use the dial face clock when I started to school - it's as if a dial clock face hits a different part of my brain than the clock with digits. I still have a bit of a dichotomy about how I think about time depending on which type of clock I read. If I read a digital clock, I don't think in quarter hours, just in digits, while I am less accurate in my time sense with a dial clock and just approximate the time - quarter hour or in fives and tens (ten 'til, twenty after for example).