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Time Units Practice Worksheet

Help Bodhi plan a busy day at the community fair. Read each clue carefully. Use seconds, minutes, hours and days to describe how long things take.

Choose a useful time unit

The fair has lots of activities, from very quick to very long.

1.Bodhi claps once to get her friend’s attention. Which unit is best for describing how long one clap takes?
  • seconds
  • minutes
  • hours
  • days
2.Bodhi waits in line for a ride for about 8 minutes. Which unit best describes the wait?
  • seconds
  • minutes
  • hours
  • days
3.The fair is open from morning until evening on Saturday. Which unit is most useful for describing the length of one visit?
  • seconds
  • minutes
  • hours
  • days
4.The fair returns next year. Which unit would you use to count the wait until it returns?
  • seconds
  • minutes
  • hours
  • days

Estimate and compare

Use sensible estimates. Different people may take slightly different amounts of time.

5.Choose the most sensible estimate for eating an ice-block: about 2 seconds, 2 minutes or 2 hours?
  • 2 seconds
  • 2 minutes
  • 2 hours
6.Put these activities in order from shortest to longest: riding a ferris wheel for 5 minutes; waving hello for 2 seconds; walking around the fair for 1 hour; visiting the fair over 2 days.
7.At the fair, the animal show lasts 30 minutes. Is that more or less than half an hour?

Plan the fair day

Bodhi uses a simple schedule to make sure she has time for the best activities.

Activity

Time taken

Choose a ride

5 minutes

Watch the animal show

30 minutes

Eat lunch

1 hour

8.In Bodhi’s schedule, which activity takes the longest?
9.How much longer is lunch than choosing a ride?
10.Invent one fair activity that might take about 1 minute. Write the activity and explain why 1 minute is a sensible estimate.

3 printable pages

  • Time Units Practice Worksheet, page 1 of 3: Choose a useful time unit

    Page 1

  • Time Units Practice Worksheet, page 2 of 3: Estimate and compare, Plan the fair day

    Page 2

  • Time Units Practice Worksheet, page 3 of 3: 8. In Bodhi’s schedule, which activity takes the longest?

    Page 3

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