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Elapsed time is the amount of time that passes between the beginning and the end of an event. The concept of elapsed time fits nicely in the elementary school curriculum. Beginning in third grade, students should be able to tell and write time to the nearest minute and solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of time. Reinforce these essential skills with the following elapsed time word problems and games.

Elapsed Time Word Problems

These quick and easy elapsed time word problems are perfect for parents and teachers who want to help students practice elapsed time to the nearest minute with simple mental math problems. Answers are listed below.

• Sam and his mom arrive at the doctor’s office at 2:30 p.m. They see the doctor at 3:10 p.m. How long was their wait?
• Dad says dinner will be ready in 35 minutes. It’s 5:30 p.m. now. What time will dinner be ready?
• Becky is meeting her friend at the library at 12:45 p.m. It takes her 25 minutes to get to the library. What time will she need to leave her house to arrive on time?
• Ethan’s birthday party started at 4:30 p.m. The last guest left at 6:32 p.m. How long did Ethan’s party last?
• Kayla put cupcakes in the oven at 3:41 p.m. The directions say that the cupcakes need to bake for 38 minutes. What time will Kayla need to take them out of the oven?
• Dakota arrived at school at 7:59 a.m. He left at 2:33 p.m. How long was Dakota at school?
• Dylan started working on homework at 5:45 p.m. It took him 1 hour and 57 minutes to complete it. What time did Dylan complete his homework?
• Dad arrives home at 4:50 p.m. He left work 40 minutes ago. What time did Dad get off work? 
• Jessica’s family is traveling from Atlanta, Georgia to New York by plane. Their flight leaves at 11:15 a.m. and should take 2 hours and 15 minutes. What time will their plane arrive in New York?
• Jordan got to football practice at 7:05 p.m. Steve showed up 11 minutes later. What time did Steve get to practice?
• Jack ran a marathon in 2 hours and 17 minutes. He crossed the finish line at 10:33 a.m. What time did the race start?
• Marci was babysitting for her cousin. Her cousin was gone for 3 hours and 40 minutes. Marci left at 9:57 p.m. What time did she start babysitting? 
• Caleb and his friends went to see a movie at 7:35 p.m. They left at 10:05 p.m. How long was the movie?
• Francine got to work at 8:10 a.m. She left at 3:45 p.m. How long did Francine work?
• Brandon went to bed at 9:15 p.m. It took him 23 minutes to fall asleep. What time did Brandon fall asleep?
• Kelli had to wait in a long, slow-moving line to purchase a popular new video game that was just released. She got in line at 9:15 a.m. She left with the game at 11:07 a.m. How long did Kelli wait in line?
• Jaydon went to batting practice Saturday morning at 8:30 a.m. He left at 11:42 a.m. How long was he at batting practice?
• Ashton got behind on her reading assignment, so she had to read four chapters last night. She started at 8:05 p.m. and finished at 9:15 p.m. How long did it take Ashton to catch up on her assignment?
• Natasha has a dentist appointment at 10:40 a.m. It should last 35 minutes. What time will she finish?
• Mrs. Kennedy’s 3rd-grade class is going to the aquarium on a field trip. They are scheduled to arrive at 9:10 a.m. and leave at 1:40 p.m. How long will they spend at the aquarium?

Elapsed Time Games

Try these games and activities at home to help your children practice elapsed time.

Daily Schedule

Let your children keep track of their schedule and ask them to figure the elapsed time for each activity. For example, how long did your child spend eating breakfast, reading, taking a bath, or playing video games?

How Long Will It Take?

Give your kids practice with elapsed time by encouraging them to figure out how long daily activities take. For example, the next time you order a pizza online or by phone, you'll probably be given an estimated delivery time. Use that information to create a word problem that's relevant to your child's life, such as, "It's 5:40 p.m. now and the pizza shop says the pizza will be here at 6:20 p.m. How long will it take for the pizza to arrive?"

Order a set of time dice from online retailers or teacher supply stores. The set contains two twelve-sided dice, one with numbers representing the hours and the other with numbers representing minutes. Take turns rolling the time dice with your child. Each player should roll twice, then calculate the elapsed time between the two resulting dice times. (A pencil and paper will come in handy, as you'll want to jot down the time of the first roll.)

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Strategies to Teach Elapsed Time

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I remember struggling with elapsed time as a child. I wanted to just simply line the numbers up and subtract. But, unfortunately, it wasn’t that easy. Sadly, I don’t think I really got it until later, as a teen, when I wanted to go somewhere with friends and needed to figure out exactly how much time it would take to get there and back. Luckily, we have many strategies in our bag of tricks these days that we can use to teach elapsed time to students to help them understand it a lot sooner.

Teach Elapsed Time – Using Four Different Strategies

There are four different strategies that I like to teach my students when it comes to elapsed time. As I mentioned in my posts, Which Is Better in Math:  Strategies or Algorithm? and Understanding Addition and Subtraction Strategies , it’s important for students to learn multiple strategies so that they can find the strategy that works best for them and fits their learning style. Each strategy does not need to be taught to mastery but instead taught so that students can find a method that works best for them. As long as the end result of finding elapsed time is done correctly, the how doesn’t matter.

Elapsed Time Strategy 1: Using the T-Chart Strategy

I always write out the start and end times so students can see where we started and where we are going. I create a T-chart, on the left, I write the time, and on the right, I write the hours and minutes between the times on the left side of the T-chart. So, for instance, looking at the picture above, you can see I went from 8:26 to 8:30. That is four minutes, so I wrote four minutes on the right side. I continue to do this and then add it up on the right side to get the total elapsed time. The only thing I would do differently (which I did later on with the class) is separate my hours and minutes. Instead, I would write 0 hours and 4 minutes that way the hours align and so do the minutes.

I provide all of my students with reinforcing games and activities that are differentiated. You can see by looking at these practice sheets below how they are differentiated.

Elapsed Time Strategy 2: Using the Zoom Strategy

This strategy I have seen called a few different names. Some have even turned the letter Z in different directions, such as creating an N. Either way, the concept is the same.

At the beginning of the Z, the students write the start time, and at the end, they write the end time. Then, they work their way up to the end. First, they figure out how many minutes it takes to round up to the next hour. So, in this example, if they start at 8:45, then they determine it takes 15 minutes to round up to 9:00. They will write that on the line connecting it (see image above). Then, they figure out how many hours it takes to get to the hour of the end time and write that on the slanted line of the Z. Finally, they determine how many minutes it takes to get from the end hour to the end time. Just as with the last strategy, these middle times on the lines are added up to find the elapsed time.

Elapsed Time Strategy 3: Using the Number Line Strategy

The number line is a big thing now with Common Core, or at least I don’t remember it being implemented as much before. However, this strategy is the one I remember using the most when teaching time before all these strategies did come along.

In this strategy, students first draw a number line with the starting time on the far left. Then, they will move up to the end time by first moving up to the nearest hour of the end time or moving up however many minutes it takes to get to the nearest hour. This is at your discretion or whatever works best for the students. Students work their way to the end time in increments of hours and minutes. Then, all the increments are added up.

Elapsed Time Strategy 4: Mountains, Hills, and Rocks Strategy

This strategy has become my students’ favorite strategy for some reason. I think maybe it is because of the visuals: the mountains (which represent one hour), the hills (which can represent anywhere from five minutes to 30 minutes), and the rocks (which represent one minute).

This strategy really isn’t much different from the number line strategy mentioned above, except that the increments are limited to the hour, a half hour at most, and one minute. What I mean by this is if you have to represent forty-five minutes on the number line, you cannot just simply draw a curved arrow of forty-five minutes like you could on the number line. Instead, you would draw a hill of 30 minutes, and then a hill of 15 minutes.

The advantages of this strategy are that it is more of a visual and that the increments are broken down a bit more. Instead of having a time increment of 47 minutes, it would be broken down into 30 + 15 + 1 + 1. For some students seeing it that way makes it less intimidating. The sizes of the mountain, hills, and rocks also help students visualize the differences between an hour, thirty minutes (or so), and one minute.

As I mentioned earlier, I like to make sure my students have plenty of opportunities to practice each strategy so they can determine which one works best for them. I provide them with lots of games and practice opportunities.

I also make sure I have plenty of real-world opportunities for them to practice the strategy they like the most. For instance, I give each student a little strip with this “Saturday Schedule” for them.

I also love giving them this open activity where they have to actually keep track of their entire Saturday on their own and find the elapsed time of everything they did. They return the sheet on Monday, and we talk about it. I have also provided you with a FREE download. Yes, the PDF is much crisper! Still working on those photography skills…just trying to find the time. I’m sure you can relate! 🙂

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On this webpage you will find our range of worksheets to help your child learn to practice finding the elapsed time between two time points.

These worksheets are aimed at 3rd grade and 4th grade students.

These sheets are graded from easiest to hardest, and each sheet comes complete with answers.

Using these sheets will help your child to:

• practice finding the elapsed time between two time points;
• find the elapsed time between two times on an analogue clock;
• find the elapsed time between two digital times.

Before you try to work out time intervals on an analogue clock, you need to be able to tell the time on a clock.

Elapsed Analogue Time Sheets

These sheets involve finding the elapsed time between two analogue times on clock faces.

• Elapsed Time Clocks Sheet 1
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• Elapsed Time Clocks Sheet 5

Elapsed Digital Time Worksheets

These sheets involve finding the elapsed time between two digital times.

All the sheets, apart from the last two involve the 12-hour clock with am and pm times.

Sheets 1 to 4 involve elapsed time to 5 minute intervals.

Sheet 5 is more challenging and involves elapsed time to 1 minute intervals.

• Elapsed Digital Time Sheet 1
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• Elapsed Digital Time Sheet 4 (24-hour clock)
• Elapsed Digital Time Sheet 5 Harder (12-hour and 24-hour clock)

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These sheets will help you learn to add and subtract hours and minutes from times as well as working out a range of time intervals.

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These sheets will help you to read and write different times using both analogue and digital.

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Our time calculators will allow you to convert any digital time into a military time, and back.

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Worksheets to help students learn to solve elapsed time problems involving whole hours and a half hour.

Solving elapsed time problems is an essential skill for students.

There are several methods to solve elapsed time problems. Here are some commonly used methods:

• Counting on a Clock: Count the hours and minutes directly on the clock face, moving from the starting time to the ending time.
• Number Line Method: Draw a number line. Label the number line with hours. (You can put 12 noon in the center; AM hours to the left and PM hours to the right). Mark in the starting time and the ending time. Count the hours and minutes from the starting time to the ending time.

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“Elapsed time” isn’t a phrase you hear much outside of school, but it is a skill we use all. the. time. If I leave now and it takes me 37 minutes to get to work, will I be late? Or, gymnastics starts at five and we need to have dinner first, which usually takes 45 minutes, so I should have dinner ready by four so we make it on time. Or something like, if the movie starts at 1:20 and is an hour and forty-two minutes long, we’ll be done just after three. You see what I mean? It’s everywhere!

Calculating elapsed time – how long something will take, what time it will begin, and what time it will end – is an extremely useful skill in real life and an expectation starting around 3rd grade. 

Introducing Elapsed Time

When introducing elapsed time, I find it very helpful to do so with real-life contexts and as authentically as possible. Even outside of our time unit , I try to use phrases such as, “We will have math for 1 hour and then it’s time for recess. It’s 10:15 now, so what time will we head outside?” When I’m working with a small group, I might say something like, “If I need to see my next group at 1:20 and it’s 1:07 right now, how long do we have?” 

These authentic contexts give students meaning for learning the skill, increasing motivation and engagement. Besides discussing elapsed time in context, let’s dig into four strategies for teaching elapsed time: using manipulatives, an open number line, a t-chart, and, of course, playing games.

Elapsed Time Strategy #1: Manipulatives

You might be able to guess my favorite manipulative for teaching elapsed time: Judy Clocks! I love those clocks for so many reasons. They are durable, perfect for small hands, and well-designed to be easy to read. Not only that, but they have versions that have different color hour and minute hands as well as versions where the hour hand moves with the minute hand just like a real clock! They are so useful for teaching time in general and an incredible resource for elapsed time.

Calculating elapsed time is an abstract concept for students, even those who may already be independently telling time, and using clocks helps shift this skill from the abstract to the concrete.

Let’s consider this problem: Sonia rode her bike home from the park. She left at 1:13 and got home at 1:28. How long did it take her to get home?

When solving this problem using Judy Clocks, I use the power of partners. One partner sets their clock to 1:13 and one to 1:28. Next, students use the strategy that feels best to calculate the elapsed time. Some students will count each minute in between, while others will jump to 1:20 using fact fluency (13 + 7 = 20) and then use the strategy of adding on to get 1:28. Regardless of strategy, the ability to physically manipulate the minute hand really helps students “see” the passage of time.

Another type of problem we might work through is one that gives one precise time and the elapsed minutes. For example: Sonia left the park at 1:13. It took her 15 minutes to get home. What time did she get home?

Using a Judy Clock, students first show the given time. Then, they can move the minute hand to show that 15 minutes have passed. As with the previous problem, students can approach this in multiple ways. Some students will count each minute while moving the minute hand. Others will decompose the 15 into 7 minutes and 8 minutes to jump from 1:13 to 1:20 and then 1:20 to 1:28.

With both types of elapsed time problems, I eventually want students to use the more efficient strategy of benchmark numbers, but to start, any strategy will do!

Elapsed Time Strategy #2: Open Number Lines

Once students are ready to move on to a more abstract representation of elapsed time, it’s time for open number lines. Students are usually familiar with these from their work with addition and subtraction. I start by showing an analog clock with all of the minutes labeled with tick marks alongside a number line labeled with hours and minutes. I make sure the number line has a point at the time shown on the clock. Next up is my favorite part: opening the conversation to students and asking them what they notice and wonder. This is where we really get to dig into their great thinking!

During this warm-up time, students will often notice the similarities between the images: both have tick marks, both have the numbers 1 – 12, etc. This lends itself wonderfully to a discussion on how we can use the number line representation to add or subtract times.

So how do students do this work? Below are two images of how students use a closed and open number line to solve the elapsed time problems we looked at earlier. I always make sure to remind students to jump to benchmark numbers, or times in this case, to make calculations easier. What are Benchmark times you might ask? Benchmark times are hour, half hour, ten, and five-minute times like 2:00, 3:30, 4:10, and 5:05. Let’s see what this looks like:

Sonia rode her bike home from the park. She left at 1:13 and got home at 1:28. How long did it take her to get home?

Sonia left the park at 1:13. It took her 15 minutes to get home. What time did she get home?

Elapsed Time Strategy #3: T-Charts 

A t-chart is even more abstract than the previous two approaches to solving elapsed time problems. T-charts function a lot like an open number line in that students use benchmark times to make calculations easier. On the left side of the chart, students record the times, and on the right, they record the time that has elapsed between those times. Let’s look at these problems one more time and how we use t-charts to track our calculations.

In this t-chart, we start at 1:13 and know that we have to add on until we get to 1:28. We added 7 to get to the benchmark time of 1:20 and then 8 to get to 1:28. Finally, we add 7 and 8 to get the elapsed time of 15 minutes. 

In this t-chart, we start at 1:13 and we know we need to add 15 minutes and the result is our ending time. First, we added 2 to get to the benchmark time of 1:15. Then we added 10 to get to 1:28 and another 3 to get to 1:28, the time she got home. One way for students to check their work is to ensure that they added the correct amount of time to their starting time. In this case, we know we added 15 minutes because 2 + 10 + 3 = 15. 

As you can see, t-charts help students keep track of the numbers they are working with and also provide an organized way of showing their thinking. 

Elapsed Time Strategy #4: Games

You know how much I love games for practicing all kinds of skills and they work great for practicing elapsed time too! Classics like Kaboom and Scoot are fun and also allow kids to practice calculating elapsed time. 

To play Kaboom, kids pick sticks (or cards) with problems to solve. As they solve problems, they keep their sticks but if they get a stick that says Kaboom, they have to put them all back. The addition of the Kaboom stick is what makes this game really fun!

Scoot is an activity where you set out task cards around the classroom and students scoot from one to another solving problems. As we all know, movement around the room always adds novelty and fun to practicing skills. 

If you’re wondering where to get these games and activities, don’t worry, I’ve got you covered! My Time Centers Mega Pack has a Kaboom game with elapsed time problem options as well as Elapsed Time Race, another fun game. It also includes a ton of other time center activities for some additional practice with telling and elapsed time.

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Do you have other strategies for teaching elapsed time or have you had success with any of these strategies? Share in the comments! I can’t wait to hear from you.

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I don’t know about you all, but teaching elapsed time is one of those things that tricks almost every single student in my class!  It’s almost one of those things that just has to “click” and then the kids get it.  But until it clicks, I try to have several different strategies up my sleeve to help them figure out elapsed time. I have an Elapsed Time Pack on TpT, and a lot of what I show here you can find there!  However, you can still use several of the elapsed time strategies without the packet.  I have found the activities in the pack to be very helpful to my students, and best of all, they are differentiated for you!

Teaching Time on a Number Line

I start out elapsed time by showing students how to find elapsed time on a number line.  We use number lines for so many different skills that it is a natural tool for students to work with (AND they can easily draw a number line on a state test if they need to).  I make an anchor chart and I have mini-posters that they can glue into they math journal or copy into their math journal depending on how much time we have.

I always have my students either copy this into their math journal and glue it in so that when they have questions, they have an easy reference tool.

Benchmark Numbers

I teach the students about benchmark numbers… see if you can add an hour first, then half an hour, then fifteen minutes, then ten, then five until you get to where you need to be.  Using these “benchmark numbers” (5, 10, 15, 30, 60) is easy for kids, then they are only left to deal with a few tricky numbers.  Most kids love the number line method for elapsed time.  There are a few who always want a different way, and that’s where I pull out my T-Charts.

I don’t know why, but these t-charts have been lifesavers for some of my students.  I personally love them because they are so easy to color-code (and you will quickly learn that anything that can be purposefully color coded WILL be color coded in my room.)  I start by showing the students how to use the t-charts if they know the time period that they are finding the elapsed time between.  We write the time period on the top, then underline the start time in green, and the end time in red.  The end time is so important because you have to know when to stop adding times on the t-chart.  Then, we make our t-chart and write the start time in green.  From there, we add benchmark times on the left and add the times up on the right.  For example, on the first one, we started at 8:15.  On the left side of the t-chart, we added an hour, so we were then at 9:15.  Then, we add 10 minutes, and we were at 9:25.  And so on until you get to the ending time.  We mark the end time in red, add up the times on the left side of our t-chart, and voila, there is our elapsed time!

You can also use the elapsed time t-chart to find a certain time period after (or before if you are daring) a given time.  Exact same concept, but you are looking at the left hand side to know when to stop.

Elapsed Time Anchor Charts

Here are two anchor charts that hang in my classroom. I hope one of these methods works for your students. There are so many ways to teach elapsed time!

Elapsed Time Interactive Notebook Pages

Before we move on to elapsed time activities and games, students take notes that go along with our anchor charts. You can find these foldables for our interactive notebooks in this  elapsed time teaching bundle .

Elapsed Time Activities and Printables

Now, to practice our new skills, there are a few elapsed time worksheets I have my kids complete. They are differentiated–some have benchmark times only (times ending in 5, 10, 30, 45, etc.), and some have any increment of times (ending in 4, 36, 21, etc.) Guess what? I color code them! RED are easier, and BLUE are harder. Of course, when I print them out, I don’t print them in color, and the kids can hardly tell a difference since the pages are exactly the same, but with slightly differentiated content. Another option is to use them for scaffolded instruction… Use the red ones first, then the blue ones. Here are some samples of the worksheets I use, which are now available in DIGITAL versions too .

After the kids are fairly secure in their work, we play a fun elapsed time game.  I love this game because it is so easily differentiated.  There are four different game boards with different types of clocks.  Two boards just have times written on them for the spaces (one with benchmark times, one with more difficult times), and two boards have clocks for spaces (one board has a clock with numbers, and one board has a clock without numbers).  ALL of the kids use the same game cards, but their starting times are different.  An example of a game card… “Jenny Beth wakes up at the time listed on the game board.  She must be at basketball practice in 35 minutes.  What time must she be there?”  The kids love playing this game!  (There is also a recording sheet included so that you can check their accuracy).

Finally, I have my kids complete elapsed time task cards .  A lot of these task cards are similar to the game cards so that they already have some familiarity with them.  I often use their answers to the task cards as their assessment.

I have a fun little word problem for the kids who finish early, or for kids who need a little extra push.  I call it my dilemma, and the kids love it because they think they are really helping me solve a problem!

We also use this FREE elapsed time Topple Block game, which you can download here . Students absolutely love this game!  I had so many comments from kids saying that they didn’t want math time to end.  Little do they realize, they end up completing 36 elapsed time problems during their games. 😉

This Amazing Race style elapsed time game is the perfect way to end your unit. Students solve problems to race throughout different continents.

Elapsed Time Project

This is another must-do that is so much fun! Your students will love playing elapsed time detective and solving crimes while working on elapsed time skills. Many of these problems include elapsed time word problems and critically thinking about the skill too.

I truly hope you can use some of these elapsed time strategies (especially the t-chart and number lines) to help your kids with that tough concept of elapsed time!  I know it’s corny, but it’s one of those concepts that just…takes time. 🙂

If you would like to purchase the resources features in this post, here is my TpT Elapsed Time Bundle Pack.

Have a wonderful week!

Mary Montero

I’m so glad you are here. I’m a current gifted and talented teacher in a small town in Colorado, and I’ve been in education since 2009. My passion (other than my family and cookies) is for making teachers’ lives easier and classrooms more engaging.

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Thanks for sharing your ideas!! Elapsed time is such a difficult concept. I've used the number lines before, and pictures of clocks (circles) shaded in. I look forward to trying out the t-chart this year!! Thanks again.

I hope it works well for you! 🙂

This is an awesome post. I am going to need to share it with my friends that teach elapsed time! =)

I am one of your newest followers. I would love for you to hop over and visit me when you get the chance. =)

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Thanks, Heather! Love your blog 🙂

Can you tell me how you would use the t-chart to find the start time when you have the end time? Example: It's 5:30pm and the game started 45 minutes before. What time did it start? Thanks for your help!!

Hi Angel! I'll post a picture tonight to show an example of how we do it. Thanks for stopping by!

Thank you it is my pleasure, fantastic unit!

Hi Angel. I added a few pictures of my anchor charts that I think might help answer your question. If it doesn't, let me know!

Thank you for this! I've been doing a great project called Mystery Class through Journey North for several years and we do a ton of elapsed time. They eventually get it but this will make it so much more clear.

this post rocks! thanks for another alternative to teaching elapsed time! Elizabeth Hodges Herald

Thank you so much for sharing your idea of the T-chart. The number lines have worked well for many of my students but it's still not clicking for some. Maybe the T-chart will make the difference. I can't wait to try it tomorrow. Thanks! Wendy http://1happyteacher.blogspot.com/

شركة نقل اثاث بالرياض شركة كشف تسربات المياه بالرياض شركة عزل مائى بالرياض شركة نقل اثاث نقل عفش جدة شركة تنظيف بجدة نقل عفش جدة عزل خزانات بجدة مكافحة حشرات بجدة شركة كشف تسربات المياه بالرياض شركات العزل الحراري في الرياض شركة عزل مائي بالرياض طبيب تحويل مسار المعدة بالمنصورة بالون المعدة عملية تدبيس المعدة

شركة مكافحة حشرات شركة مكافحة النمل الابيض بالرياض شركة مكافحة الفئران نقل اثاث بالرياض شركة كشف تسربات بالرياض نقل اثاث تنظيف فلل بالمدينة المنورة شركة تنظيف مسابح بالمدينة المنورة شركة تنظيف موكيت بالمدينة المنورة تنظيف فلل في جدة شركة عزل خزانات بجدة شركة تسليك مجارى بجدة تنظيف فلل بالدمام شركة تنظيف بالدمام شركة تنظيف شقق بالدمام مكافحة حشرات بالرياض تسليك مجاري الرياض شركة تنظيف بالرياض

شركة تنظيف شقق بالخرج كشف تسربات المياه بدون تكسير افضل شركة لعزل الابوكسي للخزانات افضل شركات تنظيف وتخزين بالرياض اشهر شركات تنظيف وتخزين بالرياض شركات تنظيف وتخزين شركات تنظيف وتخزين بالرياض

It's funny that your blog is "teaching with a mountain view," because that's how I teach Elapsed Time! My students draw a time line and count from the start time to the end time (or backwards from the end time to the start time), using mountains, hills, and pebbles. They start with mountains (one hour segments), then use hills (5 minute segments), and then use pebbles (1 minute segments). When they reach their desired time they stop and count up the mountains, hills, and pebbles. I've been using this method for three years, and I haven't had a problem with it yet!

What goes under the elapsed time, going back in time, and going into the future flap books?

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شركة نقل وخزين بالرياض خدمات تنظيف بالرياض شركة رش مبيدات بالرياض شركة نقل عفش واثاث بالرياض شركة مكافحة حشرات بالرياض شركة تنظيف فلل بالرياض شركة تنظيف مجالس بالرياض شركة تنظيف مجالس شركة تنظيف مسابح بالرياض شركة تنظيف خزانات بالرياض شركة تسليك مجارى بالرياض

شركة رش مبيدات بالرياض شركة نقل عفش واثاث بالرياض شركة مكافحة حشرات بالرياض شركة تنظيف فلل بالرياض شركة تنظيف مجالس بالرياض شركة تنظيف مجالس شركة تنظيف مسابح بالرياض شركة تنظيف خزانات بالرياض شركة تسليك مجارى بالرياض

شركة تنظيف فلل بالرياض شركة تنظيف شقق بالرياض شركة تنظيف مجالس بالرياض شركة تنظيف خزانات بالرياض شركة تنظيف واجهات حجر بالرياض شركة تنظيف واجهات زجاج بالرياض شركة تنظيف موكيت بالرياض شركة تنظيف مسابح بالرياض شركة تنظيف بيوت بالرياض نقل عفش بالرياض شركة نقل اثاث بالرياض افضل شركة نقل اثاث شركة تخزين اثاث بالرياض

شركة تخزين عفش بالرياض شركة نقل اثاث بالمدينة المنورة شركة نقل عفش بالمدينة المنورة شركة تنظيف بالمدينة المنورة شركة تنظيف شقق بالمدينة المنورة شركة رش مبيدات بالرياض شركة مكافحة حشرات بالرياض شركة رش مبيدات بجدة شركة مكافحة حشرات بالدمام شركة رش مبيدات بالدمام شركة مكافحة حشرات بجدة شركة مكافحة حشرات بالمدينة المنورة

شركة رش مبيدات بالمدينة المنورة شركة مكافحة النمل الأبيض بالرياض شركة مكافحة نمل أبيض بالرياض شركة مكافحة حشرات بالرياض شركة عزل خزانات بالرياض شركة كشف تسربات بالرياض كشف تسربات المياه بالرياض شركة تسليك مجارى بالرياض شركة تسليك مجاري بالدمام شركة تنظيف شقق بالدمام شركة تنظيف بالرياض شركة تنظيف شقق بجدة

شركة تنظيف بجدة شركة تنظيف بالدمام ———————- شركة مكافحة حشرات بالرياض شركة تنظيف خزانات بالرياض شركة تنظيف خزانات المياه شركة تنظيف منازل بالرياض شركة تنظيف بيوت بالرياض شركة تنظيف بالرياض شركة نظافة بالرياض شركة تنظيف شقق بالرياض شركة تنظيف شقق بالخرج شركة كشف تسربات المياه بالرياض شركة كشف تسربات بالرياض افضل شركة نقل اثاث بالرياض شركة مكافحة حشرات بالرياض

شركة رش مبيدات بالرياض شركة رش الحشرات بالرياض شركة تخزين اثاث بالرياض مستودعات تخزين الاثاث بالرياض شركة مكافحة النمل الابيض بجدة شركة مكافحة النمل الابيض بالدمام شركة تنظيف واجهات حجر بالرياض شركات تنظيف واجهات الحجر بالرياض شركة مكافحة الفئران بالرياض شركة مكافحة القوارض بالرياض شركة مكافحة بق الفراش بالرياض شركة مكافحة البق بالرياض شركة مكافحة حشرات بالرياض

شركة الصفرات لتسليك المجارى بالرياض شركة الصفرات لتنظيف الفلل بالرياض شركة الصفرات لتنظيف الخزانات بالرياض شركة الصفرات لتنظيف الشقق المنازل بالرياض شركة الصفرات لتنظيف المجالس الكنب الموكيت بالرياض شركة الصفرات لرش المبيدات بالرياض شركة مكافحة النمل الابيض بجدة شركة الصفرات لمكافحة الحشرات بالرياض شركة الصفرات لنقل الاثاث العفش بالرياض شركة جلي بلاط بالرياض شركة جلي رخام بالرياض

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شركة تخزين اثاث بالرياض شركة تخزين عفش بالرياض شركة نقل اثاث بالرياض شركة تنظيف مجالس بالرياض شركة تنظيف شقق بالرياض شركة تنظيف فلل بالرياض شركة تنظيف خزانات بالرياض شركة صيانة مسابح بالرياض شركة مكافحة حشرات بالرياض

شركة مكافحة حشرات بالخرج شركة رش مبيدات بالخرج شركة تنظيف مسابح بالرياض شركة صيانة مسابح بالرياض شركة تنظيف بالرياض

شركة تخزين اثاث بالرياض شركة تخزين عفش بالرياض شركة تنظيف منازل بالمدينة المنورة شركة تنظيف خزانات بالمدينة المنورة شركة غسيل خزانات بالمدينة المنورة شركة مكافحة حشرات بالدمام شركة تنظيف فلل بالرياض شركة كشف تسربات المياة بالرياض

شركة تنظيف كنب بالمدينة المنورة شركة نقل عفش بالمدينة المنورة

شركة تنظيف بالمدينة المنورة شركة تنظيف فلل بالمدينة المنورة شركة تنظيف شقق بالمدينة المنورة شركة نظافة بالدمام شركة تنظيف بالدمام

شركة تنظيف مجالس بالمدينة المنورة

شركة تنظيف خزانات بالمدينة المنورة شركة غسيل خزانات بالمدينة المنورة

شركة تسليك مجاري بالدمام

تنظيف فلل بالرياض

شركة مكافحة حشرات بالرياض شركة مكافحة الصراصير بالرياض

شركة تنظيف بالرياض

مستودعات تخزين اثاث بالرياض

شركة تنظيف خزانات بالرياض شركة غسيل خزانات بالرياض

شركة كشف تسربات المياة بالرياض شركة كشف تسربات بالرياض

شركة مكافحة الحشرات بالرياض شركة نقل اثاث بالرياض

افضل شركة تنظيف فلل بالرياض

شركة تنظيف شقق بالرياض

شركة كشف تسربات بالرياض

شركات مكافحة الحشرات بالرياض افضل شركة مكافحة حشرات بالرياض

شركة تنظيف بالدمام شركة نظافة بالدمام

شركة تنظيف منازل بالدمام شركة تنظيف بالخبر شركة تنظيف بالاحساء افضل شركة تنظيف بالرياض

شركة تنظيف منازل بالرياض

شركة تنظيف مجالس بالرياض شركة مكافحة الفئران بالدمام

شركة رش مبيدات بالدمام

شركة مكافحة النمل الابيض بالدمام

شركة عزل خزانات بالدمام شركة تسليك مجاري بالرياض شركة مكافحة النمل الابيض بالرياض افضل شركة عزل خزانات بالرياض شركة تنظيف بالرياض شركة تنظيف بالرياض شركة النقاء شركة تنظيف بالمدينة المنورة شركة تنظيف منازل بالمدينة المنورة شركة تنظيف شقق بالمدينة المنورة شركة رش مبيدات بالمدينة المنورة

شركة تنظيف فلل بالرياض

شركة مكافحة حشرات بالرياض

افضل شركة مكافحة حشرات بالرياض

شركة مكافحة حشرات بالمدينة المنورة

شركة مكافحة النمل الابيض بالمدينة المنورة شركة تنظيف خزانات بالمدينة المنورة شركة غسيل خزانات بالمدينة المنورة

شركة مكافحة الصراصير بالمدينة المنورة

شركة مكافحة البق بالمدينة المنورة شركة مكافحة حشرات بالدمام

شركة مكافحة حشرات بجدة

شركة اللمسة الاخيرة

شركة تنظيف فلل بالرياض والخرج

شركة نقل اثاث بالرياض شركة تخزين اثاث بالرياض

شركة الصفرات للتنظيف للنظافة شركة الصفرات للتنظيف شركة الصفرات لنقل الاثاث

شركة مكافحة حشرات بمكة استمتع الآن بأفضل عروض شركة صقر البشاير فهى شركة مكافحة حشرات بمكة والطائف حيث نقدم لكم الخدمة من خلال افضل العمالة الفنية المدربة وبأفضل الاسعار وعلى اعلى مستوى من الخدمة مكافحة حشرات بمكة شركة مكافحة حشرات بالطائف مكافحة حشرات بالطائف

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Elapsed Time

Elapsed time is the time taken by an event to occur between the start of the time and the end of the time. In simple words, we can say that the amount of time that has passed between the beginning and the end of an event is called the elapsed time. We can determine this time by subtracting the end time and the start time. The formula to calculate the elapsed time is simply to subtract the hours and minutes separately. It gives the duration of an event.

Further in this article, we will explore the concept of elapsed time, its meaning, and its formula. We will also learn to calculate elapsed time on a number line and the meaning of the estimated elapsed time. We shall solve a few examples based on the topic to understand its applications and the concept in a better way.

What is Elapsed Time?

Let us first recall the meaning of the terms time and elapse separately. Elapse is a verb of time that means 'pass or go by' and time is a measurable period or duration in which an event occurs. So, elapsed time is a concept of time that describes the time that has passed from the start of an event till the end of an event. Elapsed time gives the period or the duration of an event to occur. Let us go through some of the basic examples of elapsed time in our daily lives below to understand its meaning:

• The time taken by a boy to finish a race.
• The time taken to cook a recipe.
• The duration of a journey covered in a car.
• The time taken by a school bus from start till the reaching the school.

Elapsed Time Meaning

Elapsed time means the time that has elapsed between the start of the time and the end of the time. For example, if a man starts traveling at 10:30 AM and ends the journey at 12:15 PM, the time elapsed is the duration of his journey, that is, the time between 12:15 PM and 10:30 AM. Elapsed time is an important concept as it helps us to learn to read the time on a clock and measure the time taken for an event to occur. Let us now understand the formula to calculate the elapsed time in the next section.

Elapsed Time Formula

We can calculate the elapsed time by subtracting the time at the end of the event and the time at the beginning of the event. We subtract the hours and the minutes separately. We can write time in two formats, one is the 12-hour format where we use AM and PM , and another is the 24-hour format where the time is given in hours and minutes. For example, if an event starts at 16:40 and ends at 23:50, then the elapsed time can be determined as,

Hours = 23 - 16 = 7, Minutes = 50 - 40 = 10. So, the elapsed time is 7 hours 10 minutes. Here the time was given in the 24-hour format.

We can simplify the problems by breaking the time into 1-hour gaps and then calculating. We will solve a few examples in the upcoming sections to understand this better. So, the formula to calculate the elapsed time is given by,

Elapsed Time = End Time - Start Time

Elapsed Time on a Number Line

In this section, we will learn to calculate the elapsed time on a number line . To do so, we divide the number line into equal intervals of time and then jump from the start time to the end time to calculate the elapsed time. Let us consider an example to understand this method better. A man goes on a vacation in his car. He starts driving the car at 1:30 PM and reached the destination at 6:10 PM. We need to find the elapsed time of the journey. Let us draw a number line and mark the time at 1-hour intervals and then in the last hour, we divide it into 10 minutes intervals.

Estimated Elapsed Time

The estimated elapsed time is an estimation of the time that is required for an event to occur. In simple words, we can say that it is the time that will be required for an event (that has not occurred yet) to be completed. Estimated elapsed time is generally used for flight durations. Before the take-off of a flight, the passengers are told that the flight will land in x hours and y minutes. Since we cannot be sure of the exact duration as the event has not occurred yet, we consider it as the estimated elapsed time which is estimated according to past experiences.

Calculating Elapsed Time

Now that we have understood the meaning of the elapsed time and its formula, let us solve a few examples to understand how to calculate the elapsed time when the times are given in different formats. To easily calculate the elapsed time, we add the hours first and then add the minutes in the last interval.

Example 1: Calculate the elapsed time between 3:10 PM and 6:05 PM.

Solution: To calculate the elapsed time, we will first divide the time into 1-hour intervals and then calculate the minutes in the last hour.

3:10 PM to 4:10 PM = 1 hour

4:10 PM to 5:10 PM = 1 hour

5:10 PM to 6:05 PM = 55 minutes

So, the elapsed time is 1 hour + 1 hour + 55 minutes = 2 hours 55 minutes

Answer: Elapsed time = 2 hours 55 minutes

Example 2: James baked a cake in 45 minutes and it was done at 4:50 PM. When did he start baking the cake?

Solution: In this problem, we need to find the time when James started baking the cake. We have end time = 4:50 PM and elapsed time = 45 minutes. Using the elapsed time formula, we have

45 minutes = 4:50 PM - Start Time

Start time = 4:50 PM - 45 minutes

Answer: James started baking the cake at 4:05 PM

Important Notes on Elapsed Time

• Elapsed time gives the duration of an event.
• Elapsed time is the difference between the end time and start time of an event.
• It helps to read the time on the clock .

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Elapsed Time Examples

Example 1: Find the elapsed time between 17:54 and 23:40.

Solution: The time given is in 24-hour format. We will divide the time into 1-hour intervals and then count the minutes in the last interval.

17:54 to 18:54 = 1 hour

18:54 to 19:54 = 1 hour

19:54 to 20:54 = 1 hour

20:54 to 21:54 = 1 hour

21:54 to 22:54 = 1 hour

22:54 to 23:40 = 46 minutes

So, the elapsed time = 1 hour + 1 hour + 1 hour + 1 hour + 1 hour + 46 minutes

= 5 hours 46 minutes

Answer: Elapsed time = 5 hours 46 minutes

Example 2: Ama started her journey at 5:00 AM and reached her destination in 7 hours. At what time did she reach her destination?

Solution: We have elapsed time = 7 hours and start time = 5:00 AM. Using the elapsed time formula, we have

⇒ 7 hours = End time - 5:00 AM

⇒ End time = 5:00 AM + 7 hours

Answer: Ama reached her destination at 12 noon.

Example 3: How long is it between 10:20 AM and 1:10 PM?

Solution: To find the elapsed time, we will subtract the two times,

= 1:10 PM - 10:20 AM

= (11:20 AM - 10:20 AM) + (12:20 PM - 11:20 AM) + (1:10 PM - 12:20 PM)

= 1 hour + 1 hour + 50 min

= 2 hours 50 min

Answer: Elapsed time = 2 hours 50 min

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FAQs on Elapsed Time

Elapsed time is a concept of time that describes the time that has passed from the start of an event till the end of an event. Elapsed time gives the period or the duration of an event to occur.

What is Elapsed Time Formula?

The formula to calculate the elapsed time is given by,

How To Calculate Elapsed Time on a Number Line?

To calculate elapsed time on a number line, we divide the number line into equal intervals of time and then jump from the start time to the end time to calculate the elapsed time.

What is Estimated Elapsed Time?

Estimated Elapsed Time is the time that will be required for an event (that has not occurred yet) to be completed. It is generally used for flight duration.

How Do You Calculate Elapsed Time?

We can calculate the elapsed time by subtracting the time at the end of the event and the time at the beginning of the event. We subtract the hours and the minutes separately.

What is Total Elapsed Time?

Total elapsed time is the time taken between starting an event and completion of the event, including the idle time (if any). It gives the total duration of time that was taken to complete the task.

What Are Some Examples of Elapsed Time in Our Daily Lives?

Some examples of elapsed time in our daily lives are:

Like Clockwork! How to Teach Elapsed Time Working Backward

• January 28, 2024

When it’s time to teach elapsed time working backward the concept always looms on the lesson plan book like a mountain that waiting to be climbed. Every year I look at the mountain and think it looks too big, but every year we climb the mountain and find ourselves celebrating at the top!  In this blog post, I’m sharing my favorite activities for teaching elapsed time working forward. 

Step 1: Teach Elapsed Time Working Backward in a Whole Group Lesson

Before I teach elapsed time working backward, I start by reviewing the process of finding elapsed time by working forward. Then, ask, “What if we know when something ended, but need to figure out what time it started?” This prompts them to consider the reverse process – working backward.

Show students how to subtract time to find a starting point. Begin by subtracting whole hours, followed by half-hours, and then intervals of five minutes. Using clock manipulatives or clock number lines is a great way to give young students a concrete visual to help them understand how time flows when they need to work backward.

As always, teaching kids to check their work is a good idea. To check their work for elapsed time working backward, students simply need to count forward to the ending time to make sure they have the right answer.

As you teach elapsed time working backward, work through several examples together with your students so that they grow in their confidence.

Step 2: Teach Elapsed Time Working Backward with a Peer Practice Activity

The next step to teach elapsed time working backward is to give students some opportunity to practice with classmates in a no-pressure and interactive environment. I use this set of elapsed time cards. I show the students that there are two types of cards, end time cards (cave girls) and activity cards (cave boys). I have students find a partner with an opposite card. Together the pairs should determine what time the activity started. Once they agree and have checked their work, they trade cards and go find a new partner.

Step 3: Practice Finding Elapsed Time Working Backward in Station Work

Time traveling is hard work and takes practice, so after I teach elapsed time working backward and we’ve had time to practice together and the students have gained confidence, we break into small groups and rotate through math station work time.

Station 1:Interactive Notebooks 

I like to use these elapsed time accordions. I have students cut out each accordion piece and fold in zig-zags to make an accordion with the ”ending time” on the front.  On the inside squares, students solve the new time as the given number of minutes that have passed.

Station 2: Partner Games

The game I introduce to teach elapsed time working backward is called Time Travelers. I pair students up and give each pair a game board and a recording sheet for each player in the group. I also remind them of my expectations for math games. You can download your own copy of these math games behavior expectations .

Materials :

• Recording sheet
• One six-dot die
• #1-9 playing cards

Directions:

• Place the cards face down between you and your partner.
• On your turn roll the die and use that digit as the number of hours your activity will last.
• Next, draw a card and multiply that number by 5.  The product will be the number of minutes your activity will last.
• Write the hours and minutes of your activity on the recording sheet.
• Work backwards from the end time to find to determine the starting time for your activity.
• The player whose start time is closest to the whole hour (___:00) earns a point for that round.

How to Win:

• The player with the most points at the end of the game is the winner.

Station 3: Paper and Pencil Practice 

Use your textbook assignment or the worksheet in this lesson to give students a chance to show you what they’ve learned about finding elapsed time working backward and provide you with a quick assessment of their understanding. 

You can grab all these activities in this lesson on elapsed time working backward in my TPT store or grab the whole time unit on TPT or in my webstore. Happy teaching!

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Time and Clock Worksheets

Welcome to the time worksheets page at Math-Drills.com where taking your time is encouraged! On this page you will find Time math worksheets including elapsed time, telling time on analog clocks, calendars and converting time worksheets.

The calendars come in two different formats: yearly (all on one page) and monthly when you need extra space or a larger layout. The calendars are very useful in conjunction with the elapsed time worksheets with days, weeks, months, and years. Students who have difficulty visualizing a calendar may need the actual calendars to use as a reference. Telling time on analog clocks is still an important skill despite the number of digital clocks around; many people still choose the analog clock design for aesthetic purposes.

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The calendars on this page are meant for anyone to use for purposes including personal schedules, classroom planning, holiday calendars, business meetings, event calendars, or anything else. They can also be used in math activities such as elapsed date activities. A simple activity with the monthly calendars is to ask students to place an item or mark on specific spots on the calendar (e.g. "Place a bean on a Tuesday in March."). After students become familiar with how a calendar is laid out and works, you can create more challenging activities like finding elapsed dates, discovering the number of days in each month, scheduling activities, etc.

Yearly calendars are a great way to see an entire year on one page. Although not easy to write on all your appointments and anniversaries, they are a quick reference and can be very useful when completing math activities to familiarize students with calendars or more advanced activities with calendars.

Specific yearly calendars for the years 2000 to 2050 are available in this section. For any other year or if you want a custom title, you can use the general yearly calendars with fillable titles. There are seven general yearly calendars and seven general leap year calendars in two different formats (Sunday to Saturday and Monday to Sunday) which will cover any year from 1583 on.

• Yearly Calendars (Sunday to Saturday format) Yearly Calendars for Specific Years from 2000 to 2050 (Fillable Title) General Yearly Calendars ✎ (Fillable Title) General Leap Year Calendars ✎
• Yearly Calendars (Monday to Sunday Format) Yearly Calendars for Specific Years from 2000 to 2050 (Monday to Sunday Format) (Fillable Title) General Yearly Calendars (Monday to Sunday Format) ✎ (Fillable Title) General Leap Year Calendars (Monday to Sunday Format) ✎

A great number of math activities can be accomplished with monthly calendars. Familiarization activities include finding specific dates, determining which day of the week it is, marking important events on the calendar, and determining the number of days in each month, week or year. Further activities mainly include elapsed date activities where students find the number of days, weeks and/or months between two dates or find a date a certain number of months, weeks and/or days in the future or the past. Of course, these calendars can also be used as normal reference calendars by anyone.

Originally, Math-Drills calendars always started on Sundays, but there are many people in the world who use calendars starting on Mondays. A good argument can be made by thinking of the word, "weekend." The end of the week or week end is Saturday and Sunday, so why would you put Sunday at the beginning of the week? Luckily, both options exist, so pick the one that suits you the best.

Fillable means that you can type whatever you like into each date. It is possible to add up to seven short lines of text. This is useful if you want to write important dates onto the calendar or create activities for students (e.g. what date is 78 days from today?).

• Fillable Monthly Calendars (Sunday to Saturday Format) Fillable Monthly Calendars for Specific Years from 2023 to 2050 ✎ Fillable General Monthly Calendars ✎ Fillable General Leap Year Monthly Calendars ✎
• Fillable Monthly Calendars (Monday to Sunday Format) Fillable Monthly Calendars from 2023 to 2050 (Monday to Sunday Format) ✎ Fillable General Monthly Calendars (Monday to Sunday Format) ✎ Fillable General Leap Year Monthly Calendars (Monday to Sunday Format) ✎
• Retro (old versions) Monthly Calendars Retro Monthly Calendars for Specific Years from 2000 to 2050 Retro General Monthly Calendars Retro General Leap Year Monthly Calendars Retro Monthly Calendars for Specific Years from 2000 to 2050 (Monday to Sunday Format)

Reading and Sketching Time on Analog Clocks

Even though the time is displayed digitally in so many places these days—on cell phones, on computers, on microwaves—there are still quite a few analog clocks around. Besides being able to tell time on an analog clock, this is probably one of the first places that students encounter a number system other than base ten. Thanks to the Babylonians et. al. we have 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour. Once your students master the intricacies of the time system, they can start learning about other useful number systems like hexadecimal and binary, both of which are heavily used in computer programming.

Suns and moons are included with each clock to indicate the time of day. Think of the moon as midnight and the sun as noon. If the clock has a moon (midnight) on the left and a sun (noon) on the right, then the time is between midnight and noon (AM in North America). The reverse means that the time is between noon and midnight (PM in North America).

These clock worksheets include hour and minute hands, so students who are starting to learn reading time on analog clocks only have to worry about two arms. There are a variety of intervals available depending on the level of the student. The goal is to get students to be able to tell time to the minute. There are versions with twelve clocks and versions with four large clocks.

• Reading 12 Hour Time from Clocks with Minute Hands (12 Clocks per Page) Reading 12 Hour Time in One Hour Intervals (12 Clocks) Reading 12 Hour Time in 30 Minute Intervals (12 Clocks) Reading 12 Hour Time in 15 Minute Intervals (12 Clocks) Reading 12 Hour Time in 5 Minute Intervals (12 Clocks) Reading 12 Hour Time in 1 Minute Intervals (12 Clocks)
• Reading 12 Hour Time from Clocks with Minute Hands (4 Clocks per Page) Reading 12 Hour Time in One Hour Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Reading 12 Hour Time in 30 Minute Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Reading 12 Hour Time in 15 Minute Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Reading 12 Hour Time in 5 Minute Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Reading 12 Hour Time in 1 Minute Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks )

These worksheets also include second hands in various intervals. These are best to use after students have mastered reading time to the minute. The addition of a third hand challenges them more and helps them understand how many seconds are in a minute.

• Reading 12 Hour Time from Clocks with Second Hands (12 Clocks per Page) Reading 12 Hour Time in 30 Second Intervals (12 Clocks) Reading 12 Hour Time in 15 Second Intervals (12 Clocks) Reading 12 Hour Time in 5 Second Intervals (12 Clocks) Reading 12 Hour Time in 1 Second Intervals (12 Clocks)
• Reading 12 Hour Time from Clocks with Second Hands (4 Clocks per Page) Reading 12 Hour Time in 30 Second Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Reading 12 Hour Time in 15 Second Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Reading 12 Hour Time in 5 Second Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Reading 12 Hour Time in 1 Second Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks )

Students encounter 24 hour time in various places such as on plane tickets, in computer programming and in literature. These worksheets are similar to reading 12 hour clocks, but include a second set of numbers on the inside of the minute ticks.

• Reading 24 Hour Time from Clocks with Minute Hands (12 Clocks per Page) Reading 24 Hour Time in One Hour Intervals (12 Clocks) Reading 24 Hour Time in 30 Minute Intervals (12 Clocks) Reading 24 Hour Time in 15 Minute Intervals (12 Clocks) Reading 24 Hour Time in 5 Minute Intervals (12 Clocks) Reading 24 Hour Time in 1 Minute Intervals (12 Clocks)
• Reading 24 Hour Time from Clocks with Minute Hands (4 Clocks per Page) Reading 24 Hour Time in One Hour Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Reading 24 Hour Time in 30 Minute Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Reading 24 Hour Time in 15 Minute Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Reading 24 Hour Time in 5 Minute Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Reading 24 Hour Time in 1 Minute Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks )

These 24 hour clocks also include second hands, so students can read time represented on clocks to the nearest second.

• Reading 24 Hour Time from Clocks with Second Hands (12 Clocks per Page) Reading 24 Hour Time in 30 Second Intervals (12 Clocks) Reading 24 Hour Time in 15 Second Intervals (12 Clocks) Reading 24 Hour Time in 5 Second Intervals (12 Clocks) Reading 24 Hour Time in 1 Second Intervals (12 Clocks)
• Reading 24 Hour Time from Clocks with Second Hands (4 Clocks per Page) Reading 24 Hour Time in 30 Second Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Reading 24 Hour Time in 15 Second Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Reading 24 Hour Time in 5 Second Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Reading 24 Hour Time in 1 Second Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks )

Once students are able to read time off of analog clocks, they can be challenged to sketch time. This might seem easy, but analog clocks tend to have a small quirk in that the hands don't always point to the exact number. For example, if it is 6:30, the hour hand will be half way between the 6 and the 7. Taking time to point this out to students will ensure they succeed on these worksheets.

• Sketching Times to Minutes on 12 Hour Analog Clocks (12 Clocks per Page) Sketching 12 Hour Time in One Hour Intervals (12 Clocks) Sketching 12 Hour Time in 30 Minute Intervals (12 Clocks) Sketching 12 Hour Time in 15 Minute Intervals (12 Clocks) Sketching 12 Hour Time in 5 Minute Intervals (12 Clocks) Sketching 12 Hour Time in 1 Minute Intervals (12 Clocks)
• Sketching Times to Minutes on 12 Hour Analog Clocks (4 Clocks per Page) Sketching 12 Hour Time in One Hour Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Sketching 12 Hour Time in 30 Minute Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Sketching 12 Hour Time in 15 Minute Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Sketching 12 Hour Time in 5 Minute Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Sketching 12 Hour Time in 1 Minute Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks )

Once students have mastered sketching in the hour and minute hands, it is time to add the second hands. As with the hour hand, the minute hand doesn't always point exactly to the minute. For example, if it is 6:30:45, the minute hand will be about 3/4 of the way to the :31 mark. If they have learned this about the hour hand already, it shouldn't be too much of a leap to get them to understand this about the minute hand.

• Sketching Times to Seconds on 12 Hour Analog Clocks (12 Clocks per Page) Sketching 12 Hour Time in 30 Second Intervals (12 Clocks) Sketching 12 Hour Time in 15 Second Intervals (12 Clocks) Sketching 12 Hour Time in 5 Second Intervals (12 Clocks) Sketching 12 Hour Time in 1 Second Intervals (12 Clocks)
• Sketching Times to Seconds on 12 Hour Analog Clocks (4 Clocks per Page) Sketching 12 Hour Time in 30 Second Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Sketching 12 Hour Time in 15 Second Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Sketching 12 Hour Time in 5 Second Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Sketching 12 Hour Time in 1 Second Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks )

Very much the same as sketching on 12 hour clocks, these worksheets use 24 hour time.

• Sketching Times to Minutes on 24 Hour Analog Clocks (12 Clocks per Page) Sketching 24 Hour Time in One Hour Intervals (12 Clocks) Sketching 24 Hour Time in 30 Minute Intervals (12 Clocks) Sketching 24 Hour Time in 15 Minute Intervals (12 Clocks) Sketching 24 Hour Time in 5 Minute Intervals (12 Clocks) Sketching 24 Hour Time in 1 Minute Intervals (12 Clocks)
• Sketching Times to Minutes on 24 Hour Analog Clocks (4 Clocks per Page) Sketching 24 Hour Time in One Hour Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Sketching 24 Hour Time in 30 Minute Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Sketching 24 Hour Time in 15 Minute Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Sketching 24 Hour Time in 5 Minute Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Sketching 24 Hour Time in 1 Minute Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks )
• Sketching Times to Seconds on 24 Hour Analog Clocks (12 Clocks per Page) Sketching 24 Hour Time in 30 Second Intervals (12 Clocks) Sketching 24 Hour Time in 15 Second Intervals (12 Clocks) Sketching 24 Hour Time in 5 Second Intervals (12 Clocks) Sketching 24 Hour Time in 1 Second Intervals (12 Clocks)
• Sketching Times to Seconds on 24 Hour Analog Clocks (4 Clocks per Page) Sketching 24 Hour Time in 30 Second Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Sketching 24 Hour Time in 15 Second Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Sketching 24 Hour Time in 5 Second Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks ) Sketching 24 Hour Time in 1 Second Intervals ( 4 Large Clocks )

Converting Time

It is a very useful skill to be able to convert between 12 and 24 hour time in a global world. Even in places, like the U.S., where 12 hour time is used a lot, students still see time formatted in 24 hour time in a wide variety of situations.

• Converting Between 12- and 24-Hour Times Converting 12- to 24-Hour time Converting 24- to 12-Hour time Converting Between 12- and 24-Hour time

Converting between time units worksheets are useful to test students understanding of time measurement and to give them more practice.

• Converting Between Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days and Weeks (one step up or down) Converting between seconds, minutes and hours (one step up or down) Converting between seconds, minutes, hours and days (one step up or down) Converting between seconds, minutes, hours, days and weeks (one step up or down)
• Converting Between Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days and Weeks (one or two steps up or down) Converting between seconds, minutes and hours (one- or two-steps up or down) Converting between seconds, minutes, hours and days (one- or two-steps up or down) Converting between seconds, minutes, hours, days and weeks (one- or two-steps up or down)

Elapsed Time Worksheets

Elapsed time refers to the amount of time that has passed between a start time and a finish time. This can be challenging to students if they are not completely familiar with the base 60 system used for second, minutes and hours, and the fact that there are 24 hours a day sometimes split into morning and afternoon times.

• Elapsed Time to Minutes Elapsed Time with 1 Minute Intervals; Max 5 Hours Elapsed Time with 5 Minute Intervals; Max 5 Hours Elapsed Time with 15 Minute Intervals; Max 5 Hours Elapsed Time with 1 Minute Intervals; Max 24 Hours Elapsed Time with 5 Minute Intervals; Max 24 Hours Elapsed Time with 15 Minute Intervals; Max 24 Hours
• Elapsed Time to Seconds Elapsed Time with 1 Minute/Second Intervals; Max 5 Hours Elapsed Time with 5 Minute/Second Intervals; Max 5 Hours Elapsed Time with 15 Minute/Second Intervals; Max 5 Hours Elapsed Time with 1 Minute/Second Intervals; Max 24 Hours Elapsed Time with 5 Minute/Second Intervals; Max 24 Hours Elapsed Time with 15 Minute/Second Intervals; Max 24 Hours

The elapsed date worksheets in this section are based on a three column table with ten rows. Each different version of the elapsed date table will challenge students in different ways. The worksheets that ask students to find the end date are given a start date and an elapsed time. These worksheets work well for starting at a specific point and counting up. The worksheets that ask students to find the start date, elapsed time or the end date will have random blanks in the table, so students may have to figure out the elapsed time forwards or backwards. Below you will find various challenges including elapsed time with days only, then we progressively add weeks, months, and years to the worksheets.

Please note that when finding future dates, it is important to start with the largest unit first and progress to the smaller units. For example, if the start date is February 8, 2020 and the elapsed time is 3 years, 2 months, 3 weeks and 6 days, you would add the three years first to get February 8, 2023. Next, add the months to get April 8, 2023. Finally, add the weeks and days to get May 5, 2023. You can add the weeks and days together as they are both exact lengths whereas years and months vary in size.

• Calculate End Dates from Start Dates and Elapsed Times in Days, Weeks, Months and Years Calculate End Date for Various Elapsed Days Calculate End Date for Various Elapsed Days + Weeks Calculate End Date for Various Elapsed Days + Weeks + Months Calculate End Date for Various Elapsed Days + Weeks + Months + Years
• Calculate Elapsed Time Between Two Dates in Days, Weeks, Months and Years Calculate Elapsed Time Between Two Dates in Days Calculate Elapsed Time Between Two Dates in Days + Weeks Calculate Elapsed Time Between Two Dates in Days + Weeks + Months Calculate Elapsed Time Between Two Dates in Days + Weeks + Months + Years
• Calculate Start Dates from End Dates and Elapsed Time in Days, Weeks, Months and Years Calculate Start Date from End Date and Elapsed Time in Days Calculate Start Date from End Date and Elapsed Time in Days + Weeks Calculate Start Date from End Date and Elapsed Time in Days + Weeks + Months Calculate Start Date from End Date and Elapsed Time in Days + Weeks + Months + Years
• Calculate Various Start Dates, Elapsed Time or End Dates with Days, Weeks, Months and Years Calculate Start Date, Elapsed Time or End Date (Days) Calculate Start Date, Elapsed Time or End Date (Days + Weeks) Calculate Start Date, Elapsed Time or End Date (Days + Weeks + Months) Calculate Start Date, Elapsed Time or End Date (Days + Weeks + Months + Years)

Adding and Subtracting Time

Adding and subtracting time is similar to adding any numbers, but the regrouping amounts are different. If you think of the decimal system, numbers are divided into places named: ones, tens, hundreds, etc. In time values, the places have different values based on an ancient Babylonian numbering system with a base of 60. In the "seconds place," there are 60 unique seconds from 0 to 59. The same is true for the "minutes place." The "hours place" can vary from 24 if one is interested in counting days as well, or can be greater than 24 if the largest place value is in the hours place. In these worksheets, students are challenged to regroup seconds and minutes as they add or subtract two time amounts.

• Adding and Subtracting Hours and Minutes Adding Hours and Minutes (Compact Format) Adding Hours and Minutes (Long Format) Subtracting Hours and Minutes (Compact Format) Subtracting Hours and Minutes (Long Format) Adding and Subtracting Hours and Minutes (Compact Format) Adding and Subtracting Hours and Minutes (Long Format)
• Adding and Subtracting Hours, Minutes and Seconds Adding Hours, Minutes and Seconds (Compact Format) Adding Hours, Minutes and Seconds (Long Format) Subtracting Hours, Minutes and Seconds (Compact Format) Subtracting Hours, Minutes and Seconds (Long Format) Adding and Subtracting Hours, Minutes and Seconds (Compact Format) Adding and Subtracting Hours, Minutes and Seconds (Long Format)

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Time and Elapsed Time Math Centers

December 8, 2022

If you’ve ever taught elapsed time to 3rd graders, you know how much of a challenge it can be. Let’s dive into some of my favorite time and elapsed time math centers that are sure to spark engagement in your classroom! 

Tip for Teaching Telling Time

One thing I learned while teaching third grade is that reviewing the basics of time early on in the school year can be so beneficial! You can expose your students to reading times on a clock daily. It can be as simple as pausing and asking “What time is it right now?”  while students are working on an activity or they’re getting ready to transition to a new subject. 

Providing opportunities for students to practice these basics will help them build a strong foundation as they start solving elapsed time problems.

Time & Elapsed Time Math Centers

Math centers provide students with opportunities to interact with content in a different way. Blocks of time are set aside, allowing students to extend their learning through hands-on activities. Students will take learning into their own hands and share their thinking with a small group of peers.

These time and elapsed time center activities make learning fun, interactive, and collaborative for students! The activities will expose them to real-world examples of elapsed time that are relatable to their everyday life.

Review telling time and elapsed time with these 9 hands-on math centers. Your students will enjoy interacting with task cards, board games, puzzles, and more!

Telling Time using an Analog Clock

For students to understand how to solve elapsed time problems, they must first have an understanding of how to tell time using an analog clock. This Build the Time activity mat gives students practice with identifying and recreating the time on a clock. 

For this activity, students will choose a time task card. They will identify the digital time depicted on the task card and then recreate it on a printable analog clock with movable hands. This activity gives students practice with reading both types of clocks and is a perfect review activity before starting your 3rd grade elapsed time unit.

Telling Time Task Cards

This interactive activity gives students additional practice with reading analog clocks . Each task card depicts a clock or a watch. Students must determine the time pictured and then “clip” one of the three answer choices listed on each task card using a clothespin. 

To incorporate key vocabulary, some answer choices are in written form such as “half past 5”. This helps familiarize students with time vocabulary that they will hear in the real world.

Finding End Time on a Number Line

One of the best strategies for teaching students how to use elapsed time is to find an end time using a number line .  

For this activity, students use a laminated number line mat, a whiteboard marker, and elapsed time word problem cards. Students read each word problem scenario which shares a start time and how long an activity took (elapsed time).

Students then use the start time and the elapsed time to solve for the end time. The included task cards feature multiple-choice and short answer questions to provide differentiation and additional support. 

Time & Elapsed Time Board Game

Incorporating competitive games during math centers is one of my favorite ways to engage students and get them excited about rigorous content! 

This board game will have students competing against each other as they navigate 36 time and elapsed time word problems. As students provide the correct answer, they’ll roll the die and move their game piece across the board. This resource contains a set of both multiple-choice and open-ended task cards to differentiate your math centers based on your students’ needs. 

I love using board games during my teacher-led math center. This lets me see which questions the majority of students are struggling with and use that data to plan my reteaching. 

However, if you want to use this activity as an independent center, a front and back printable answer key option is included so that students can simply flip the card over to check their answers.

Using a Schedule to Solve Elapsed Time Task Cards

Reading and understanding a schedule is one real-world example of using elapsed time. This activity provides students with a schedule of the different animal shows that will take place at the zoo. Students use the information on the schedule to calculate start and end times, decide the duration of each show, and solve for how much time elapsed between each show. This problem-based learning activity includes 24 task cards in multiple choice and open-ended formats. 

AM or PM Sorting

Teaching the concept of AM and PM can be a little tricky for 2nd and 3rd grade students. This AM and PM sorting activity is great for exposing students to realistic scenarios of the morning, afternoon, and evening activities. 

Students will sort task cards into two different buckets. One bucket is labeled AM and the other bucket is labeled PM. For this activity, students read the time and activity on each task card Using this information, students determine if the activity happens in the AM or PM. Students will write the correct time and drop the bone task card into the correct bag. Once they’ve completed the sort, students can check their answers by scanning the QR code on each card. 

Connect Four Using Time

This is a fun twist on the classic game of Connect Four . Students work in pairs to identify end times using riddles containing start time and elapsed time. 

Once a student solves the riddle, they place one of their game pieces over the answer on their Connect 4 board. Then, their partner takes a turn. Play continues until one student has four in a row or until the entire board is filled. This game is perfect for differentiating your math centers as it contains two sets of task cards. One involves problems that can be solved using mental math and the other involves problems that require students to count past the hour. 

Elapsed Time Puzzles

Puzzles are another fun, hands-on tool that sparks instant engagement during math centers! These elapsed time puzzles are great for extra practice working with start and end times.

Students will have two halves of a puzzle. One half will list the start time and end time and the other half of the puzzle will list the elapsed time. They will determine how much time has passed between the start and end time and find the matching puzzle piece. Students can complete the puzzles independently, with a partner, or in small groups.

An elapsed time worksheet is also included if you want students to complete the puzzle activity but don’t have time to prep all of the pieces. 

Clock Matching File Folder Game

This telling time activity gives students additional practice with reading digital and analog clocks. Students are given a file folder game that includes a clock mat with digital clocks on it. Students must read the time on the clock and then locate the matching analog clock piece. Once they have found the matching piece, they will attach it above the digital clock using velcro. There are three differentiated clock mats included. This activity is great because you can print and laminate it once and students can use it over and over again. Perfect for early finishers, morning work, and centers! 

I hope these time and elapsed time math centers help strengthen your 3rd grade students’ understanding of this challenging topic in a fun, engaging way.

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7 Elapsed Time Activities Ideas For Classroom

With a plethora of subjects and concepts, basic abilities like counting the number of minutes taken to complete a task often get missed out. Known as Elapsed Time; Understanding this concept benefits an individual lifelong since it forms the crucial attribute required for better executive functioning .

However, teaching through mere textbooks might not be enough; hence, the students can be involved in activities that have the power to engage a student, and make them aware of crucial topics like elapsed time in a fun creative way.

Through this post, we will focus on the importance of learning about elapsed time and activities that can help educators in teaching this concept in a logical yet interesting environment.

Learning about elapsed time: A necessity?

Elapsed is basically considered as the time difference between the beginning of a task and its ending time. Being able to understand and find elapsed time is an important skill with everyday use.

For example, if a student is asked to complete his work in 15 minutes, he begins his work at 10 AM and ends up completing it at 10:28 AM. Here, the time difference between the beginning and end of the task is 28 minutes which is also the elapsed time for the task. 

• This allows us to understand that the knowledge of elapsed time is not just the mere understanding of a concept delegated to a subject but allows us to figure out innumerable aspects related to the elapsed time associated with the task.
• While being a mathematically challenging concept for most students, it is imperative that students, irrespective of their special needs should have the ability to coordinate radical units such as hours in minutes.
• It helps in identifying the time taken or required to complete a task.
• It determines the amount of effort required for a task.
• Understanding elapsed time is extremely important for time management.
• With the knowledge of elapsed time about one’s own tasks, it helps in avoiding unnecessary overwhelm associated with a hectic day.
• It is easier to plan a day when we are aware of the time taken for each task and accordingly delegate our minutes in hours for the important ones and accommodate the left-out time for the simpler and non-complacent tasks.

Activities based on learning of elapsed time 

1. shake the time.

This is indeed a fun activity that would require an empty egg carton with clocks made on paper at the bottom of the tray, and a coin or a small object. The students will be required to bring in graph papers and mark them from 1 to 12 in increasing order and choose a color of their choice.

• To start the activity, give the students these egg cartons which have the clocks made out of paper stuck to the bottom. 
• With placing the coin anywhere in the carton, ask the students to now shake the carton invisibly.
• Next up, the carton will be opened, and the students will try and find the object and the clock at the back that it has landed on.
• The time denoted in that paper watch shall be marked on the graph paper. This will give the time stamp as in the place and the associated paper clock at the back where the coin was initially before shaking gives the start time and where the coin landed gives the ending time of the task.
• This will go on until the graph is completed. 
• At the end of the task, they will have graph papers with colored areas denoting the time stems of the clocks where the object landed.
• The teacher can now use these graphs and ask the students about the elapsed time between two shakes, three shakes, one shake, and all the shakes that happened before the graph got completed.

Apart from being a fun activity, the students learn about elapsed time and graph the same time on the sheet. 

2. Tick Tock, Mind The Clock

This is a rather fun activity that will encourage collaborative play and extended interest in the concept through team play. For this activity, the class will be divided into two groups and a volunteer will be chosen from each team. These volunteers will be asked to carefully observe the times for the tasks involved in the activity.

The basic purpose of this activity will be the duration taken by each team to complete each task.

• To begin the activity, the teacher will delegate five tasks to each team, and the volunteer of the opposite team will be responsible for observing the time at which they started the task and the time actually at which they ended the task. 
• They will be required to denote the same on the board with the title of the activity.
• After the completion of all the tasks for both teams, the volunteers will be sent back to their teams, and the teams will determine the duration they took for each task through the timestamps written on the wall.

The activity shall come to an end by announcing the winner that took the least time to complete all the tasks. Through this gameplay, the students will automatically engage in determining the elapsed time for the tasks they complete, hence making the learning of the concept fun.

3. I SPY 

This is a rather simple activity but engaging as students will learn to apply the concept practically. This will require a carton box, numerous paper clocks with the time stamps on them, and a set of questions for which those times will become answers.

• The teacher will create placards with questions like what will be the time in 30 minutes from now, given the time is 11 AM at present.
• The student will then be required to calculate the time after 30 minutes from 11 AM and on the basis of their answer, they will have to find the paper clock with the timestamp that matches their answer.
• After every three questions, the intensity of the challenge shall increase.

This activity will help the students in recording and calculate the time better.

4. Race To The Rush Hour

This is another engaging task that will require a clock with mobile hands and dice for each student.

• The teacher will denote minutes to each number on the dice, like 1 can denote 7 minutes, 5 denotes 12 minutes, and so on.
• Now the clock will start at 12, and the task will end when the clock completes a full circle to reach 12 again.
• But the task is that the students can move the arms of the clock only limited to the minutes that are denoted by the digit they receive on rolling the dice. 

This activity would help the students to understand the time after each interval from the timestamp where the hands were before. Ultimately easing the concept of elapsed time. 

5. The Country Race 

This is another fun game but requires more effort from the teacher’s end. This will require the teacher to create question cards that are related to finding elapsed time between countries. 

This could involve giving the takeoff time of a flight from one country to another and giving the landing time for the same, where the student will be required to determine the elapsed time. It can be made fun by creating fake paper passports for the countries included in the questions and the students will be required to collect stamps of the country associated with the question which will only be given to them upon delivery of the correct answer.

So, if the question involves a flight from India to England, the student will be required to pick up the paper passport of India, answer the question, and go on to collect the stamp of England on their passport. The more stamps a student has, the higher will be their score which will determine the winner.

6. The Book Of Reflections

This is a home-based activity That will require the student to collect their timelines for their daily tasks and reflect on the same after getting back home. 

• The students will create a timeline and the beginning of the timeline will denote the time at which they get home and the end of the timeline shall denote the time at which they reach school the next day.
• This timeline will hold the timestamps for each task between the time from getting home to getting back to school. For example, a student reaches home at 3:50 PM and eats lunch until 4:20 PM. The timeline will denote a colorful jump from 3:50 PM to 4:20 PM and the student will reflect on the minutes taken for the task and write it over the bubble between the two timestamps.
• They will then reflect on the elapsed time for each task if they could have done it more quickly or the reason that they require that much time to complete the task.

After a month of this collection and reflection, the students will have a book of reflection that they can share with each other and discuss their similarities and differences in timelines and lifestyles to better know about each other.

7. Detective

This is a rather engaging and interesting activity for the students to understand the concept of elapsed time. Here the teacher will be required to create a mystery theft scenario, with the culprit to be found according to the timeline of the things that happened. 

The mystery could involve the time at which the theft was reported, the people that were present at that time, what they were doing before that and for how long, people who were his enemies and were around, and the time that would take them to reach him.

Such clues will require the students to determine the elapsed time between each of these activities to find out the criminal. This will help them don the hat of a detective and solve the crime through the power of elapsed time.

The concept of elapsed time requires students to create and understand the relationships between the time a particular task began at, and the time it got finished at. While some students might be quicker in forming those mental relationships, it can take time for other students. Having an understanding of such crucial concepts helps the individual in organizing and scheduling their day, prioritizing tasks, and meeting deadlines which ultimately leads to better time management. This post helps the educators to use the activities to help the students understand the concept better due to their extensive usage in our daily lives.

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ELAPSED TIME in a Sentence Examples: 21 Ways to Use Elapsed Time

Do you ever wonder how much time has passed between two specific points in an event or process? The term for this measurement is known as “elapsed time.” Elapsed time simply refers to the period that has passed between a specific starting point and a present moment.

When calculating elapsed time, one typically subtracts the start time from the end time to determine the duration. This concept is commonly used in various fields such as sports, cooking, and project management to track progress and monitor efficiency. Understanding how to calculate elapsed time can help you better manage your time and resources effectively.

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7 Examples Of Elapsed Time Used In a Sentence For Kids

• We can use a clock to measure elapsed time .
• Elapsed time is how much time has passed.
• Let’s count the minutes for the elapsed time .
• We can use a stopwatch to measure elapsed time .
• Elapsed time helps us understand how long things take.
• We can also use an hourglass to measure elapsed time .
• Let’s see how much elapsed time has passed since we started.

14 Sentences with Elapsed Time Examples

• Elapsed time can be crucial when preparing for college exams.
• It is important to track the elapsed time while working on various assignments.
• Managing the elapsed time effectively is essential for balancing study and extracurricular activities.
• The elapsed time spent on research projects can greatly impact the final grade.
• It is advisable to set goals based on the elapsed time available for each task.
• Understanding the concept of elapsed time can help in better time management.
• College students often underestimate the elapsed time needed to complete a project.
• The elapsed time between classes can be utilized for group study sessions.
• Proper utilization of elapsed time during weekends can help in better exam preparation.
• Setting reminders for deadlines can assist in keeping track of the elapsed time .
• The elapsed time spent on internships and practical training can enhance real-world skills.
• Analyzing the elapsed time spent on different subjects can aid in identifying strengths and weaknesses.
• College students can benefit from creating a study schedule based on the elapsed time available each day.
• Reflecting on the elapsed time spent on extracurricular activities can help in prioritizing commitments.

How To Use Elapsed Time in Sentences?

Elapsed Time helps in calculating the duration of an event or activity. Elapsed Time is used to determine how much time has passed between a starting point and an ending point.

To use Elapsed Time in a sentence, first identify the starting time and the ending time you want to compare. For example, “Maggie left the house at 9:00 AM and returned at 1:00 PM, so the elapsed time of her outing was 4 hours.”

Next, subtract the starting time from the ending time to find the difference in hours and minutes. For instance, 1:00 PM minus 9:00 AM equals 4 hours.

When writing your sentence, be sure to include the unit of time being referenced. This could be hours, minutes, days, etc. For example, “The elapsed time of the basketball game was 2 hours and 30 minutes.”

Remember to use clear and concise language when incorporating Elapsed Time into your sentence. Avoid using ambiguous language that may confuse the reader about the duration being described.

By following these simple steps, you can easily incorporate Elapsed Time into your writing to accurately convey the amount of time that has passed between two points.

In exploring sentences with elapsed time, we’ve seen how this concept is used to describe the duration between two specific points in time. Whether it’s measuring seconds, minutes, hours, or even years, elapsed time helps us understand the passage of time. For example, “It took me 30 minutes to drive to work today” provides a clear indication of the time spent in transit.

Understanding elapsed time is crucial for scheduling, planning, and tracking activities effectively. By using specific phrases like “Three hours had passed since we started the meeting,” we can clearly communicate time-related information. Incorporating elapsed time into our sentences allows for precise and concise descriptions of time intervals, aiding in better time management and organization.

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For this assignment, you will write a program that takes a start time (in seconds) and an end time (in seconds) and computes the elapsed time. The program will display the elapsed time in HH:MM:SS format.

This assignment highlights the use of integer arithmetic using SUB and DIV instructions.

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Given a start time (in seconds) and an end time (in seconds), compute the elapsed time.

Program input is simulated with hard-coded variables. At the beginning of the program, there are two lines that set the input variables to an initial value. These values can be changed to test the program using different input combinations.

The elapsed time is the difference between the end time and the start time. For example:

• The start time is 10 seconds.
• The end time is 72 seconds.
• The elapsed time is 62 seconds.

After computing the elapsed time, calculate the individual hours, minutes, and seconds components of the elapsed time. Store the component values in the variables named hours , minutes , and seconds . These variables are already defined for you.

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• The hours component is 0 .
• The minutes component is 1 .
• The seconds component is 2 .

At the end of the program, the following code has been provided for you. It will print the elapsed time to the console in the correct format.

The console output of the example given above would be:

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• You can assume the inputs (start time and end time) will be valid integer values.
• You can assume the inputs (start time and end time) will be greater than 0 .
• You can assume the start time will be less than or equal to the end time.
• You can store the time values and the elapsed time components as 64-bit values. The predefined variables are set as QWORDs.

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Owatonna opens time capsule tucked in the high school a century ago.

A simple metal box tucked into a cornerstone of a building built in the middle of a cornfield more than a century past has captivated the community of Owatonna.

Owatonnans filled that box back in 1920 with rosters from local volunteer organizations, a history of the city's founding, a list of local officials and financial statements from the city, school district and area banks.

The rusted box was unearthed earlier this year by workers in the middle of demolishing the old Owatonna High School. Owatonna Public Schools officials unveiled the time capsule's contents last month , garnering national attention at a peek at what life was like in this southern Minnesota city 100 years ago.

"I don't know that this is something you find very often in these times," Owatonna Public Schools Superintendent Jeff Elstad said.

School officials held a ceremony April 22 to open the capsule, which also included area newspapers, a pin from the Grand Army of the Republic group of veterans from the Civil War and a coin from the 1920s (though three coins were listed on the inventory sheet). The box even included an old photograph of the leader of one of the fraternal lodges in town.

According to the district, workers demolishing the old high school were told to take special care to preserve the building's cornerstone, which they had planned to repurpose. But workers called district officials in early February with news they found something in the stone.

"There's this pioneering aspect of where you build something new," Elstad said. "I guess the expectation in Owatonna is our high schools are going to last us 100 years. That's certainly the expectation here."

It was common practice to hide time capsules in cornerstones of buildings like the old high school, according to Jennifer Thiele of the Steele County Historical Society. But Owatonna officials had no record of a time capsule hidden anywhere on the property.

The capsule itself is a treasure-trove of information, from bylaws and agenda items of organizations to full listings of the people involved in city affairs from 1920.

"It's quite significant for the community just because there's so many fraternal organizations and different societies that are no longer in existence in Owatonna or Steele County," Thiele said. "We'll be able to tell not only who was a part of them but also what their missions and purposes were."

It also shows how much Owatonna has grown. A 1920 financial statement showed the city's budget to be a little bit over $530,000, paying for everyone from the police chief to people trimming light lamps. When adjusted for inflation, that's the equivalent of $8,276,798 today. This year, the city's budget is close to $50 million.

The school district ran on almost $120,000 during its 1919-1920 fiscal year for its 300 students. The student body has grown fivefold, while the annual budget has skyrocketed to $80 million. So per pupil spending has grown from $400 per student to $53,333 per student.

The capsule contents have dried out — the metal box did little to prevent rust damage, mold and mildew as it was cracked open at the bottom — and are on display while the historical society orders protective sleeves and other preservation materials.

The society and the district are in the midst of negotiating possession over each item — some of the community-centric documents will stay at the historical society, while items belonging to the school district will either go on display at a museum inside the new Owatonna High School or be part of a new district office to be built at the former high school's site.

Some items might even go into a new time capsule, according to Elstad. He hopes the new time capsule can carry on those generational stories.

"My hope is that 100 years from now, people look back upon us and say, 'Wow, there were some people that decided in our community it was time for a new high school and they did this,'" he said. "Now the contents will look a lot different, but hopefully the spirit will be the same."

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The two rappers had circled one another for more than a decade, but their attacks turned relentless and very personal in a slew of tracks released over the weekend.

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The long-building and increasingly testy rap beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake exploded into full-bore acrimony and unverifiable accusations over the weekend. Both artists rapid-fire released multiple songs littered with attacks regarding race, appropriation, sexual and physical abuse, body image, misogyny, hypocrisy, generational trauma and more.

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Each racked up millions of streams and the three that were made available commercially — “Euphoria,” “Meet the Grahams” and “Not Like Us” — are expected to land near the top of next week’s Billboard singles chart, while seeming to, at least momentarily, shift the public perception of Drake, long a maestro of the online public arena and meme ecosystem .

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How did two of the most famous artists in the world decide to take the gloves off and bring real-life venom into an extended sparring match for rap supremacy? It was weeks, months and years in the making, with a sudden, breakneck escalation into hip-hop infamy. Here’s a breakdown.

Since late March, the much-anticipated head-to-head seemed inevitable. Following years of “will they or won’t they?” lyrical feints, Lamar hit directly on record first this year during a surprise appearance on the song “Like That” by the Atlanta rapper Future and the producer Metro Boomin, both formerly frequent Drake collaborators.

With audible disgust, Lamar invoked the track “First Person Shooter” from last year’s Drake album, “For All the Dogs,” in which a guest verse from J. Cole referred to himself, Drake and Lamar as “the big three” of modern MCs.

Lamar took exception to the grouping, declaring that there was no big three, “just big me.” He also called himself the Prince to Drake’s Michael Jackson — a deeper, more complex artist versus a troubled, pop-oriented hitmaker.

“Like That” spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, as Future and Metro Boomin released two chart-topping albums — “We Don’t Trust You” and “We Still Don’t Trust You” — that were anchored by a parade of Drake’s past associates, each of whom seemed to share a simmering distaste toward the rapper, who later called the ambush a “20 v. 1” fight.

In early April, J. Cole fought back momentarily , releasing the song “7 Minute Drill,” in which he called Lamar overrated, before backtracking, apologizing and having the song removed from streaming services. But Drake soon picked up the baton, releasing a wide-ranging diss track called “Push Ups” less than a week later that addressed the field, with a special focus on Lamar’s height, shoe size and supposedly disadvantageous business dealings.

Less than a week later, Drake mocked Lamar’s lack of a response on “Taylor Made Freestyle,” a track released only on social media. It featured Drake taunting Lamar for being scared to release music at the same time as Taylor Swift and using A.I. voice filters to mimic Tupac and Snoop Dogg imploring Lamar to battle for the good of the West Coast.

“Since ‘Like That,’ your tone changed a little, you not as enthused,” Drake rapped in an abbreviated third verse, as himself. “How are you not in the booth? It feel like you kinda removed.” (“Taylor Made Freestyle” was later removed from the internet at the request of the Tupac Estate.)

But it was a seemingly tossed-off line from the earlier “Push Ups” that included the name of Lamar’s longtime romantic partner — “I be with some bodyguards like Whitney” — that Lamar would later allude to as a red line crossed, making all subject matter fair game in the songs to come. (It was this same alleged faux pas that may have triggered an intensification of Drake’s beef with Pusha T in 2018.)

How We Got Here

Even with Drake-dissing cameos from Future, Ye (formerly Kanye West), Rick Ross, the Weeknd and ASAP Rocky, the main event was always going to be between Drake, 37, and Lamar, 36, who have spent more than a decade subtly antagonizing one another in songs while maintaining an icy frenemy rapport in public.

In 2011, when Drake introduced Lamar to mainstream audiences with a dedicated showcase on his second album, “Take Care,” and an opening slot on the subsequent arena tour, the tone was one of side-eying competition. “He said that he was the same age as myself/and it didn’t help ’cause it made me even more rude and impatient,” Lamar rapped on “Buried Alive Interlude” of his earliest encounter with a more-famous Drake. (On his Instagram on Friday, Drake released a parody of the track, citing Lamar’s jealousy since then.)

The pair went on to appear together on “Poetic Justice,” a single from Lamar’s debut album, “Good Kid, M.A.A.D City,” in 2012, as well as “___ Problems” by ASAP Rocky the same year.

But their collaborations ceased as Drake became his generation’s premier hitmaker across styles in hip-hop and beyond, while Lamar burrowed deeper into his own psyche on knotty concept albums that brought wide critical acclaim alongside less constant commercial success.

When asked, the two rappers tended to profess admiration for one another’s skill, but seemed to trade subtle digs in verses over the years, always with plausible deniability and in the spirit of competition, leading to something of a hip-hop cold war.

The Week It Went Nuclear

Lamar’s first targeted response, “Euphoria,” was more than six minutes long and released last Tuesday morning. In three sections that raised the temperature as they built, he warned Drake about proceeding and insisted, somewhat facetiously, that things were still friendly. “Know you a master manipulator and habitual liar too,” Lamar rapped. “But don’t tell no lie about me and I won’t tell truths ’bout you.”

He accused the biracial Drake, who was born and raised in Toronto, of imitating Black American heritage and insulting him subliminally. “I hate the way that you walk, the way that you talk, I hate the way that you dress,” Lamar said. “I hate the way that you sneak diss, if I catch flight, it’s gon’ be direct.” And he called Drake’s standing as a father into question: “Teachin’ him morals, integrity, discipline/listen, man, you don’t know nothin’ ’bout that.”

Days later, Lamar doubled down with an Instagram-only track called “6:16 in LA,” borrowing both Drake’s “Back to Back” diss tactic from his 2015 beef with Meek Mill and a song title structure lifted from what is known as Drake’s time-stamp series of raps. Opting for psychological warfare on a beat produced in part by Jack Antonoff, Swift’s chief collaborator, Lamar hinted that he had a mole in Drake’s operation and was aware of his opponent’s opposition research.

“Fake bully, I hate bullies, you must be a terrible person,” he rapped. “Everyone inside your team is whispering that you deserve it.”

That night, Drake’s “Family Matters” started with its own justification for getting personal — “You mentioned my seed, now deal with his dad/I gotta go bad, I gotta go bad” — before taking on Lamar’s fatherhood and standing as a man in excruciating detail. “They hired a crisis management team to clean up the fact that you beat on your queen,” Drake rapped. “The picture you painted ain’t what it seem/you’re dead.”

Yet in a chess move that seemed to anticipate Drake’s familial line of attack, Lamar’s “Meet the Grahams” was released almost immediately. “This supposed to be a good exhibition within the game,” Lamar said, noting that Drake had erred “the moment you called out my family’s name.” Instead of a rap battle, Lamar concluded after another six minutes of psychological dissection, “this a long life battle with yourself.”

He wasn’t done yet. Dispensing with subtlety, Lamar followed up again less than 24 hours later with “Not Like Us,” a bouncy club record in a Los Angeles style that delighted in more traditional rap beef territory, like juvenile insults, proudly unsubstantiated claims of sexual preferences and threats of violence.

Lamar, however, didn’t leave it at that, throwing one more shot at Drake’s authenticity as a rapper, calling him a greedy and artificial user as a collaborator — “not a colleague,” but a “colonizer.”

On Sunday evening, Drake responded yet again. On “The Heart Part 6,” a title taken from Lamar’s career-spanning series, Drake denied the accusation that he preyed on young women, indicated that he had planted the bad information about his fake daughter and seemed to sigh away the fight as “some good exercise.”

“It’s good to get out, get the pen working,” Drake said in an exhausted outro. “You would be a worthy competitor if I was really a predator.” He added, “You know, at least your fans are getting some raps out of you. I’m happy I could motivate you.”

Joe Coscarelli is a culture reporter with a focus on popular music, and the author of “Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story.” More about Joe Coscarelli

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What's it like to date on reality TV? Get to know the Iowan on 'Farmer Wants a Wife'

Iowa native Emerson Sears has made it to the season finale of the reality TV show "Farmer Wants a Wife."

After joining the show as a surprise plot twist nearly halfway through the second season, Sears was paired with Colorado barley farmer Brandon Rogers. With two more episodes left and the season finale reunion, fans will soon find out if Sears gets hitched.

The Register sat down with Sears to talk about her experience on the dating show.

"You never know what's going to happen," Sears said. "I went there and we definitely hit it off. We clicked on the first date."

More: Iowan joins the cast of Fox reality show 'Farmer Wants a Wife'

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What is the show 'Farmer Wants a Wife'?

The reality TV series features four farmers hosting a group of single women at their farms in hopes of finding love, according to  Fox's website . There are two seasons and the show is hosted by country music singer Jennifer Nettles.

Season two premiered Feb. 1. The women go on dates with the farmers and work on the farm in hopes of getting a feel for rural life.

Who is the Iowan on 'Farmer Wants a Wife'?

Sears is 26 years old and is from Elkhart, Iowa. She is a college counselor and went to Iowa State University, according to her  LinkedIn  profile. In her free Sears likes to be outdoors. She enjoys fishing, biking, going to the gym and being with family.

She is the first Iowan to appear on the Fox version of "Farmer Wants a Wife." A previous version of the show aired on The CW in 2008 and included then 23-year-old Krista Krogman from Kelley, Iowa.

How did Emerson Sears join 'Farmer Wants a Wife'?

Sears never saw herself on a reality TV show and she never guessed she would look for her significant other on one. Her mom watched the first season of "Farmer Wants a Wife" and suggested Sears sign up for the show. Sears' first instinct was no, but after thinking about it she realized she could see herself marrying a farmer. That same night as Sears' mom watched the Season 1 finale of the show, Sears filled out the application to be on "Farmer Wants a Wife" Season 2.

The show responded to Sears eight hours after she turned it in. Sears didn't choose which farmer she would be paired with. But both Rogers and Sears were from small towns and have similar goals.

What is Sears' most memorable moment of 'Farmer Wants a Wife'?

Sears' favorite moment was meeting Rogers for the first time. She joined three other new women who joined the show in episode seven. She went on a date with Rogers and he decided to bring her back to his farm to see if they had a connection. Sears said she was able to get to know Rogers just from that first date.

"You only see a small amount of the conversation on TV," Sears said. "I had a lot of fun just getting to know him. We laughed a lot and we both really do strive for that forever-type of relationship."

In the second to last episode, Rogers visited Sears' hometown of Elkhart, Iowa , and met her family. The couple went on a utility vehicle ride, but Sears said Rogers also learned more about her home life. Sears' dad suffers from lymphoid and thyroid cancer and had a major stroke.

"It changed the course of my family's life," Sears said. "It was an emotional day for me and I didn't know it was going to be like that. My dad's my best friend, and Brandon knows that."

What is dating on reality TV like?

In addition to first dates already being awkward, Sears said dating on camera felt overwhelming at first. There are multiple cameras and she had to wear a mic throughout the date. Sears also had the fear of coming on to the show late and Rogers not wanting to meet her.

"He's not the first farmer I have dated," Sears said. "I know my way around a farm. So the first two minutes were I'm nervous, he's nervous and then it was all good."

Rogers made Sears feel comfortable and talking to him was easy, she said.

"He made me feel super comfortable," Sears said. "And it was just easy to connect and chat with him."

How does dating on reality TV compare to dating in Iowa?

The obvious difference was the cameras following Sears around on all of her dates. But in terms of the guy, Sears said Rogers is fairly similar to the men she has dated in the past: a farmer.

"I know that he joked about dating in a small town," Sears said. "Once you date one person you date the whole town. And I was like, 'OK we might be the same person.'"

What will the final episodes of 'Farmer Wants a Wife' include?

The second to last episode of "Farmer Wants a Wife," airing on May 9, will consist of the farmers deciding if they found their wives. Rogers will choose between Sears and Grace Girard.

Following the choice, the members of the cast will join for a reunion episode to talk about their experience on the show. Sears couldn't share many details of the final outcome, but regardless she wished Rogers the best and was thankful for the experience.

"I can't give away too much," Sears said. "Brandon needs to be happy and that's all that matters to me. That's why we came on the show right? To hopefully find love. I have a lot of respect for Brandon. I really do love him. He's a good guy."

Where can I watch 'Farmer Wants a Wife'?

You can watch "Farmer Wants a Wife" on Fox at 8 p.m. Central on Thursdays, with the season finale dropping on May 16. You can also watch the show on Hulu. For those in Iowa watching, Sears hosts a watch party at Kippy's bar in Elkhart Iowa at 7 p.m. Thursdays.

Kate Kealey is a general assignment reporter for the Register. Reach her at  [email protected]  or follow her on Twitter at @ Kkealey17 .

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Subscriber only, yankees await ‘tough decision’ as jasson domínguez readies for rehab assignment.

Aaron Boone said The Martian is going to begin a rehab assignment this Tuesday or Wednesday. He will do so with the Single-A Tampa Tarpons following a recovery process that’s gone as planned.

“It seems like there’s been very few hiccups along the way,” Boone said Saturday. “It’s been smooth. He hasn’t been rushed.”

Nor will he be.

Boone said that Domínguez will only DH over his first two weeks of minor league games. However, he could have his assignment transferred to a higher-level affiliate before playing in the outfield.

Boone said that Domínguez has been doing all of his defensive work, including long-tossing. However, the Yankees are going to wait to put him in the outfield during a game.

Throughout Domínguez’s recovery, the Yankees have stated that the summertime is the earliest he could return. However, it’s no given that the uber-talented prospect will rejoin the Yankees immediately after his assignment ends.

While Domínguez shined prior to his injury last year, hitting four home runs over eight games for a disappointing team intent on auditioning younger players, he’s only 21. He’s also played in just nine Triple-A games.

Meanwhile, the Yankees have a solidified starting outfield with Juan Soto in right, Aaron Judge in center and Alex Verdugo in left.

Domínguez, who has minor league options, would be an offensive improvement over fourth outfielder Trent Grisham, but also a defensive downgrade. Relegating Domínguez to a backup role could hurt his development, though.

At the moment, it looks like regular playing time would be hard for Domínguez to come by. Of course, things change over time, but there’s a chance the Yankees stash Domínguez in the minors once his assignment ends.

“Hopefully it is a tough decision at that point because good things are happening here,” Boone said. “So we’ll cross that bridge when we get there.”

With that said, Verdugo and Soto are heading for free agency this winter. Both have enjoyed their time as Yankees so far, but there’s no guarantee they return. Their potential departures could set up eventual outfield openings for Domínguez and fellow top prospect Spencer Jones, though that’s a little far out in the future.

Either way, Boone is confident that Domínguez is going to have a successful career. It’s just not clear when it will resume at the major league level.

“I always feel like I’ve been one of the high guys on Jasson,” Boone said. “Going back to last spring, I’m like, ‘This guy’s a big leaguer.’ There’s no doubt in my mind he’s gonna have a really good major league career.

“Now, when does that happen and when does he really take off and pop and all that? That always is an unknown and remains to be seen. Everyone’s trajectory is different. But I am confident in the person and the talent.”

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