Elapsed Time to Five Minutes

Grade 3MathCCSS 3.MD.A.1

Skill: Finding end times and elapsed minutes to the nearest five minutes

10 versions for extra practice: this skill comes in 10 printable versions with the same layout and different problems, each with its own answer key. See all versions below, or download all 10 in one PDF (all answer keys).

Free for personal and classroom use. Print at 100% / "Actual size" on US Letter paper.

About this worksheet

Elapsed time is the amount of time that passes from a start time to an end time. This third-grade worksheet gives twelve elapsed-time problems using times to the nearest five minutes within a single a.m. or p.m. period. Some problems ask students to find the end time when they know the start and how long something lasts. Others ask how many minutes passed between two given times. All durations are whole numbers of minutes that are multiples of five, which matches the clocks third graders already know how to read.

Elapsed time is used constantly in daily life, from knowing when a cake comes out of the oven to figuring out how long a car ride lasts. Students who only count hours often miss the minutes, so this page keeps both in view.

How to use it: a blank clock or a number line marked in five-minute jumps is a strong support. For "start at 2:15 and go for 40 minutes," jump forward by tens and fives until you reach the end. For "from 3:20 to 4:05," count up to the next hour, then add the remaining minutes. Talk through real examples from your child's day.

The answer key shows every end time or elapsed duration. This worksheet supports Common Core standard 3.MD.A.1 (tell and write time to the nearest minute and measure time intervals in minutes; solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes). It builds on our Grade 2 telling-time worksheet.

All 10 versions

Each version practices the same skill with a fresh set of problems, so children can keep practicing without repeating a page they have already done. Problems are not repeated between versions unless a skill has only a small number of possible problems (for example, the addition facts within 10).