Reading a Timetable

Free interactive math game: Reading a Timetable — Bus schedule. Part of the Units & Time category on MathKite.

Example problems

Taken from the generator that powers this exercise. A fresh set appears every time the page is opened, and the printable worksheet holds ten of them.

  1. How many minutes does Bus A take from Central to West?

About this exercise

Pulling times and durations out of a timetable.

How to solve it

Find the right row and column first, then treat the two times as a start and an end and count the gap.

Worked example

A bus leaving at 09:15 and arriving at 10:05 takes 50 minutes.

Common mistake

Slipping a row. Timetables are dense, so tracking the row with a finger or a ruler pays off.