Free worksheets · Grade 3
Elapsed Time Worksheet
Find how many minutes pass between two times, or the end time after so many minutes.
Free printable
Elapsed Time
12 questions, one page, US Letter. Print it and do it on paper.
On the sheet: Count up by 5 minutes from the start time to the end time. Once you get to 60 minutes, which is one hour, start over at 5. Write the end time or the minutes.
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About this worksheet
Elapsed time is how much time passes from a start to an end. Some questions give both times and ask for the minutes; others give the start and the minutes and ask when it ends.
The useful habit is counting up by fives from the start time. Each time the count reaches 60 minutes, that is one hour, and the count starts over at 5.
A worked example
Starts at 2:05. Ends at 3:15. How many minutes?
- Count up by 5s from 2:05: 2:10 is 5, 2:15 is 10, and so on.
- At 3:05 the count reaches 60 minutes: that is 1 hour. Start over at 5.
- 3:10 is 5 and 3:15 is 10, so it took 1 hour and 10 minutes: 70 minutes.
Answer: 70 minutes
The common mistake
What it looks like: Going past the hour as if there were 100 minutes in it: 7:50 plus 20 minutes written as 7:70.
Why it happens: Children add minutes the way they add any other numbers, and the clock's 60 breaks that habit.
How to fix it: Count on to the next hour first (7:50 to 8:00 is 10 minutes), then count the rest from there (8:10).
Ten minutes a day, on paper. We plan what comes next.
A printed page and a pencil. No screen, no login for your child. Snap a photo when they’re done: AI scores it, and what they missed comes back on the sheets that follow.
- Mon Elapsed Time
- Tue What they missed, back again
- Wed The next step, when they’re ready
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