Elapsed Time Unit - Year 5

Teach Year 5 students to calculate elapsed time and find missing start or finish times with a coherent sequence of explicit instruction, worked examples, games, printable practice and assessment.

Students learn to count on across hour boundaries, partition hours and minutes, cross noon or midnight accurately, interpret timetables and check whether an answer is reasonable. The editable presentation supports whole-class teaching, while the games, five differentiated practice sets and Community Sports Carnival assessment provide varied opportunities to apply the strategies.

Every worksheet and assessment page has a matching answer page, and the editable quiz places each answer immediately after its question for efficient review.

What’s Included

• Editable 20-slide Elapsed Time PowerPoint presentation
• Editable 22-slide Elapsed Time Quiz with 10 question-and-answer pairs
• 38-page Unit Plan PDF with colour table of contents
• Elapsed Time Strategy Display Set — 3 colour pages
• Elapsed Time Student Reference Cards — 1 colour page with two cut-apart cards
• Elapsed Time Match-Up — 4 colour pages with 12 scenario cards and 12 matching duration cards
• Timeline Race — 4 colour pages: landscape game board, two challenge-card pages and instructions/teacher key
• Five differentiated worksheet sets with matching answer pages
• Community Sports Carnival Assessment — 2 student pages plus 2 answers
• Elapsed Time Year 5 Rubric — 1 landscape page with five achievement levels

Learning Focus

• Connect start time, finish time and duration.
• Calculate elapsed time in hours and minutes.
• Use open number lines and partitioning strategies.
• Find missing start and finish times.
• Interpret timetables and solve multi-step problems.
• Work accurately with am, pm, noon and midnight.
• Estimate and check answers for reasonableness.

Classroom Use

Use the presentation for explicit teaching and guided practice, then reinforce learning with reference cards, partner games and independent worksheets. Finish the sequence with the editable quiz, Community Sports Carnival assessment and rubric. The scope supports a flexible 5–10 lesson sequence plus assessment.

Product Details

• Year level: Year 5 / Grade 5
• Subject: Mathematics
• Topic: Elapsed time, duration, start and finish times, timetables, am and pm
• Formats: PDF and editable PPTX
• Unit plan: 38 pages
• Presentation: 20 slides
• Quiz: 22 slides
• Answer key: Included through matching answer pages and quiz answer slides

Licence

Licensed for use by the purchasing teacher in their own classroom. The files may not be redistributed, resold or shared publicly.

Digital product: No physical item will be shipped. The editable PowerPoint files require compatible presentation software.