Are your students struggling to nail down the concept of elapsed time? They’re not alone. Elapsed time is one of the most challenging topics for your third and fourth-grade students to understand. There are many strategies, different types of problems, start times, end times, and everything in between. But no worries, the Teach Starter Team has been working hard to create helpful resources for your students to get in some much-needed practice with elapsed time.

Grab Our Brand-New Elapsed Time Practice Pack!

These printable elapsed time practice worksheets are excellent tools to give your students additional practice with a difficult concept. We’ve included a variety of leveled practice worksheets to help your students with their different learning needs. This printable elapsed time PDF worksheet pack contains the following.

• Elapsed Time Worksheet 1 – Hour and Half-Hour
• Elapsed Time Worksheet 2 – Quarter Hour
• Elapsed Time Worksheet 3 – Elapsed Time to 5 Minutes
• Elapsed Time Worksheet 4 – Elapsed Time by the Minute

Each worksheet provides the students with two analog clocks. They must look at the analog clock and then follow the directions to add or subtract an amount of time from what is shown. Once students have found the end time, they will draw the hands on the second clock to represent the new time.

Ways to Use Your Elapsed Time Practice Worksheets

• Project our worksheets onto interactive whiteboards for dynamic classroom discussions. Engage students in collaborative problem-solving activities that promote critical thinking and peer learning.
• Transform our worksheets into time management challenges. Set timers and encourage students to complete tasks within specified time frames, enhancing their time management skills alongside elapsed time practice.

Download Your Elapsed Time Resource Today!

This resource is available as an easy-to-use Google Slides or Printable PDF Resource file. To get your copy, click the dropdown arrow on the download button to select your preferred file format. Make your copies, pass them to your students, and you’re ready to begin!

This resource was created by Brittany Collins, a teacher in Indiana and Teach Starter collaborator.

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