Help your students master elapsed time with this engaging set of 24 task cards, designed to strengthen their time-telling and problem-solving skills!

Each card presents a multiple-choice problem (A–D) with one correct answer, focusing on elapsed time in hours and minutes. Students will practice adding and subtracting time, understanding durations, and finding midpoints — all while building confidence with clocks and time calculations.

This resource includes:

• 24 Elapsed Time Word Problem Task Cards
• Answer Key (for quick checking)
• Student Recording Sheet (optional printable)
• Digital Version (Google Slides)
  

This Task Cards covers 4 types of elapsed time problems:

1. Start or End Time Problems
   Students are given a duration and either a start or end time and must figure out the missing time.
   
2. Elapsed Time Duration
   Students calculate how long an event lasted given a start and end time.
   
3. Back-to-Back Events
   Students solve real-life scenarios involving two consecutive events, with or without a short break in between.
   
4. Midpoint Time
   Students find the time halfway between two given times — great for developing number sense with time.