Teaching Elapsed Time? It’s Time for Scaffolding!

Understanding elapsed time can be tricky, especially for primary school students. Time is an abstract concept, and measuring durations of minutes and hours can be extremely difficult. It often takes a lot of support for teachers to guide students through the process. Helping students overcome these difficulties usually requires various scaffolding strategies and intense support. By providing structured support, you can help your students better understand the methods for calculating elapsed time. With time and practise, your students will be set to master this difficult maths concept.

Calculate the Time Elapsed…One Baby Step at a Time

Teaching your students to determine elapsed time is tough. This year, help your students build up to total mastery of the standard by leading them through individual stages to get them to the top of the learning ladder. This printable worksheet set does just that, taking your students through the stages of learning elapsed time by starting small and baby-stepping toward the top level. This pack of 5 printable Calculating Time Elapsed worksheets includes a series of worksheets designed to start them off slowly and progress toward mastery. Included worksheets are

• Calculating Elapsed Time Worksheet (Whole Hour Increments)

• Calculating Elapsed Time Worksheet (Whole and Half Hour Increments)

• Calculating Elapsed Time Worksheet (Whole, Half, and Quarter Hour Increments)

• Calculating Elapsed Time Worksheet (Minutes within the Hour)

• Calculating Elapsed Time Worksheet (Hours and Minutes)

These worksheets have students completing Elapsed time tables that require solving elapsed time problems in which they must find the start time, end time, or overall time lapsed between two given times.

Download, Print, and Calculate Elapsed Time

This resource is available in the following printable and editable formats. Click the dropdown arrow on the download button to select your preferred file.

• BW PDF (non-editable)
• BW Google Slides (Editable)

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