Time Questions

1. Maths starts at 10.25am and lasts for 45 minutes. At what time does
Maths finish?
2. Science lasts for 55 minutes and ends at 3.30pm. At what time does Science start?
3. Year 5 have a 40 minutes Maths lesson every day. In one week at school how long will
Year 5 have spent in Maths?
4. Class 7 needs to get to the museum at 11.30am. It is a 17 minute walk from the museum.
At which time must Class 7 leave school if they are to arrive at the museum at exactly
11.30am?
5. Shameila left home at 10am. She spent 10 minutes walking to Staceys house and then
stayed with Stacey for 2 hours. Shameila then spent another 10 minutes walking home. At
what time did Shameila arrive home?
6. Class 5 are meant to have 1 hour of English each day. Last week however, one of their
lessons was cut in half because they had a special assembly. How long did Class 5 spend in
English last week?
7. Adrian spent 1 hours visiting 6 friends. He spent exactly the same amount of time at
each friends house. How long did Adrian spend at each friends house?
8. Paul caught a train to Liverpool at 1.25pm. The journey lasted 2 hours and 15 minutes. At
what time did Paul arrive in Liverpool?
9. It takes Jason 12 minutes to read one page of his book. He has 6 pages left to read. How
long will it take Jason to finish reading his book?
10. Suzy and Javed missed 22 minutes of the film as they arrived late at the cinema. The film
lasted for 1 hour and 48 minutes. How much of the film did Suzy and Javed see?
11. David cycles to and from school every day, each journey takes him seven minutes. How
long does David spend cycling every week?
12. Three music lessons lasted for 1 hour and 45 minutes altogether. Each music lesson lasted
for the same amount of time. How long was each music lesson?

1. The car race began at 08:45 and finished at 14:35. How long did the race
last?
2. The sun sets at 19:30 and rises again at 06:30. How many hours of
darkness are there? How many hours of daylight?
3. A train leaves at 9:45 am and arrives at 3:45 pm. How long does the
journey last?
4. These are the start and stop times on a video recorder.
START

14:45

STOP

17:25

How long was the video recording?

5. Four children in a relay team swim in a race. Here are their times for each
lap.
LAP 1

Craig

92 seconds

LAP 2

Fiona

86 seconds

LAP 3

Harun

85 seconds

LAP 4

Jenny

91 seconds

What is the total time for the four laps?

Birmingham New Street

09:4
0

10:0
5

11:0
5

12:3
5

Birmingham
International

09:5
0

10:1
5

11:1
5

12:4
5

Coventry

10:1
0

10:3
0

11:3
0

13:0
0

Leamington Spa

10:2
5

11:4
5

13:1
5

Banbury

10:4
5

12:0
5

Oxford

11:0
5

11:2
0

12:2
5

13:5
5

Reading

11:3
0

11:5
5

12:5
0

14:2
5

6. What time does the 09:40 from Birmingham New Street arrive at Reading?
Which is the fastest train from Birmingham New Street to Reading?
7. At how many stations does the 10:15 from Birmingham International stop
before it reaches Reading?
8. How long does it take the 13:55 from Oxford to reach Reading?
9. You have to arrive at Oxford by 2:00pm. Which train would you catch from
Coventry?
10.You get to Leamington at 09:30. How long will you have to wait for a train
to Reading?

1. Lamb must be cooked for 60 minutes for every kg. Chicken must be cooked for
50 minutes for every kg. Complete this table of cooking times:

Kilograms

1.5

2.5

3.5

Cooking time in minutes

(LAMB)
Cooking times in minutes
(CHICKEN)

2. Fill in the gaps in this table:

Seven oclock in the evening

19:00

7:00 pm

Quarter to ten in the morning

14:20
22:15
Midnight
17 minutes past 4 in the
afternoon

4. Below is an incomplete timetable. Can you complete it using the information

below to help you?
Timetable W16 Bus Leyton Station to Chingford Mount
Depart
09.00
14.00*
Leyton Station
Leyton
11.15
Leisure
Lagoon
Walthamstow
09.25
14.35
Central
Walthamstow
09.40
Dog Track
New Road
11.55
15.10
Chingford
09.55
Mount

16.30

16.55

18.25

17.20

18.50

It takes 10 minutes to get to Leyton Leisure Lagoon from Leyton Station

usually.
New Road is only 5 minutes before Chingford Mount.
The 2pm bus* from Leyton takes 5 minutes longer at each stop!
The 8pm bus** from Leyton takes 10 minutes longer at each stop.
TIME WORD PROBLEMS

20.00**

20.45

21.45

1.Milly had an appointment at Dr. Smith's office yesterday at 11:30 a.m. The doctor called her
into his office right on time. She was out of there 25 minutes later. What time did Milly leave
the doctor's office?

2 Hassan stopped work at 12.15pm and went to Ella's Soup and Salad for lunch. He stayed there
until he had to leave to meet his friend, William, at the library. They were meeting at 1:30
p.m. The library is a 20-minute walk from Ella's. How long did Hassan stay at Ellas Soup and
Salad?

3 Bethany and Joe are going to march in the big city parade on Saturday. They have to be at
the parade an hour before it starts. The parade kicks off at 11 a.m. If it takes 25 minutes to
walk to the starting point of the parade, what time will Bethany and Joe have to leave home in
order to be there right on time?

4 Rory, the owner of Rory's Cookie Jar, has to bake 12 large pans of chocolate chip cookies
before he leaves for the day. He can bake two pans of cookies at a time. Rory knows that for
perfect cookies each pan must bake for 15 minutes -- no more, no less. If he starts baking at
5:45 p.m., what is the earliest he can close up shop?

5 James has a busy day planned today. He will meet his friend, Ben, at the skate park. That is a
15-minute walk from home. They will stay at the skate park for an hour. Then they will take a
10-minute walk over to the shops. The first thing they will do there is to grab a hot dog from
Brittanys Burger Bar. If James left home at 10:00 a.m., what time did he and Ben get in line
for a hot dog?

Time problems

1.

Class 4 were doing a writing assessment and the children were allowed 1 hour and 15
minutes to write a short story. If the test started at 11.10 a.m., what time did it finish?

2. It takes 35 minutes to drive to St Lawrence Church. Father Michael has asked us to be

there at 10.20 a.m. At what time must we leave school?

3. On Wednesday, Mark arrived for P.E. at 2.12 p.m. and the class started 14 minutes later.
The lesson lasted for 55 minutes. What time did the class start?

4. It takes Mrs Jones 33 minutes to drive to school. If she leaves home at 7.40 a.m. at
what time will she arrive?

5. Last Wednesday, the road was flooded and Mrs Jones was delayed by 12 minutes. If she
left home at 7.45 a.m. when did she reach school.

6. Sandra runs the after school club from 3.15p.m. until 6.p.m. how long is the club open
each day?

7. It takes 10 minutes to drive to Southam. Mrs Privett left school at 1.15p.m. and drove to
Southam. She spent 35 minutes shopping and then drove straight back. At what time did
she get back to school?

123 TV
You have been employed to create a TV schedule for a new channel, 123 TV. This
channel does not have advertisements. There are certain restrictions that you have to
meet when planning their Saturday evening schedule.

You have to plan the TV programmes from 6pm to 12 midnight. The restrictions are
listed below:

36 minutes of Sport

180 minutes of Film

18 minutes of News and

Weather
54 minutes of Reality TV

18 minutes of Music

54 minutes of Drama

You can create the names of the programmes yourself but some examples have been
noted below to help you.

Drama Doctor Who, Grange Hill, Casualty

Reality TV X Factor, Strictly Come Dancing, Britains Got Talent
Film Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, The Incredible Hulk
Sport Football, netball, cricket

TASK: Create a new TV schedule for 123TV noting down start and finish
times in both the 12 and 24 hour clock. Remember that you can include more
than one programme if you wish, for example 29 minutes of Celebrity Big
Brother and 25 minutes of X Factor.

Time Travellers
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and all of the worlds time are set from Greenwich
in London, the site of the Millennium Dome.
Those countries to the east of London are ahead of us time as the earth spins
from day to night. Those countries on the west of London are behind in time.
Use the Timeticker web site to find out how far ahead, or behind GMT these
countries are. (www.timeticker.com)

Country
France
Cyprus
India
Hong Kong
Brazil
Greece
USA Eastern
USA Western
New Zealand
Australia Sydney
Spain
Japan
Mexico

+ GMT or
+ 1 hour

GMT

Current local time

Use your chart to answer the following questions.

1. In London the time is 14:00. What time is it in the following countries?

a) Greece b) Spain c) Japan d) Mexico

When we go on foreign holidays we often have to re-set our watches as we leave

the plane so that they show the correct local time for that country.
2. A flight from London to Greece takes 4 hours. If I take off at 09:30, what
will be the local time when I land?

3. A flight from London to India takes 12 hours. If I take off at 18:00, what will
be the local time when I land?

4. A flight to Sydney, Australia via Hong Kong takes 24 hours in total. I take off
at 15:00 on 8th December. What will be the date and local time when I land?

5. A flight from London to New York (eastern USA) takes 8 hours. There are
two flight times I could book 11:00 or 18:00. Find out the times at which both
flights are due to land.

6. If a flight leaves London at 06:00 on 10th December, and flies over America
to Sydney, Australia, taking 24 hours, what will be the date and local time when
I land in Sydney?