Distance is speed multiplied by time, and every journey question is that one relationship with a different piece missing. These free printable word problems ask for each of the three in turn, with the numbers kept friendly so the setup is the work.
If they get stuck
The answer key prints on a separate page.
The whole topic hangs on one triangle: distance on top, speed and time below. Cover the piece the question asks for and the arrangement of the other two shows whether to multiply or divide. A child who draws that relationship rather than memorizing three separate formulas can rebuild any of them on the spot.
Units are where these problems are won or lost. A speed in kilometers per hour and a time in minutes do not multiply cleanly, and the most common wrong answer at this level is right except that an hour and a half was treated as 1.5 or as 90 without deciding which the speed needed. Reading the units before the numbers is the habit to build.
One question from a sheet like this one, worked a step at a time — with a sentence saying what just happened and why.
Speed, distance and time word problems, step by step