Elapsed timeUp to 90 minutes
Name: Date:
Write the time it will be after the minutes given.
110:4090 min
21:1540 min
34:5080 min
42:2550 min
53:4085 min
64:2010 min
71:1035 min
82:2015 min
What time will it be worksheets
Given a start and how long something lasts, when does it end? These free printable sheets ask the forward question of elapsed time — a time plus an interval — and answer with a clock time.
If they get stuck
What time will it be
The answer key prints on a separate page.
What's on this sheet
Adding an interval to a time is easy until the minutes pass sixty, and that carry is the whole point. 3:15 plus thirty minutes is 3:45 and teaches little; 3:45 plus thirty is where an hour carries and base sixty stops being a detail. Questions that cross the hour and questions that do not are drawn as separate groups, so a page never fills with the comfortable kind.
Why this sheet works
Intervals move in five-minute steps a child can count round the dial — five, ten, twenty, forty-five — rather than a thirty-seven-minute jump that is only arithmetic wearing a clock. Counting up to the next whole hour first, then adding the rest, is the method the page is built to reward.
How this one works
One question from a sheet like this one, worked a step at a time — with a sentence saying what just happened and why.
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