It’s easy to blindly accept that clocks move clockwise, sweeping left to right on the upper half of the face and right to left on the lower half. But have you ever wondered why this is the case?

Have you ever wondered why the second, minutes and the hour hands in the clock always move in the clockwise direction and not the other way around? Who decided this for the clocks to show time in ...

A demonstration of the difference between clockwise and anti-clockwise using dancing and animation. The dancers are moving inwards, outwards, round and round. The dancer moves her ribbon clockwise ...

These tell you how far to go. Turns can be clockwise (the same way the hands on a clock move) or anti-clockwise (the opposite way to a clock's hands). You can turn a quarter, half or complete turn ...