Reading timetables – Year 5 maths lesson

Lesson 38 of 39 in the Year 5 maths course

UK version. UK school years, UK spelling and pounds (£). · US Math Department

A complete 45-minute lesson for Year 5 (ages 9–10) that runs on this page – at school or at home. Every answer is marked straight away, with a worked explanation.

Time: 45 minutes + 20 min homework
Year: Year 5 (ages 9–10)
You need: Paper, a pencil and this page
Marked: Instantly, with explanations

For parents: how to use this lesson

You don't need to know this topic yourself. The lesson explains each step on screen, one tidy step at a time. Every answer is marked straight away with a worked explanation, so you never have to mark anything.

Read what your child will learn and the big ideas together.
Press Start the lesson below and sit with your child for the teaching and the worked examples (about 19 minutes).
Let them do the practice on their own. They choose Getting started, On track or Challenge – start on On track and move up after a few right in a row.
Finish with the exit ticket and the talk question: “Why can't you just subtract times like normal numbers?”
Later that day or the next day: the homework (20 minutes), then a practice test.

Watch out for

Subtracting times like ordinary numbers (10:15 − 9:50 = 65). Count on in minutes to the hour, then add the rest.
Reading across the wrong row. Use a ruler under the row.

Tip for home: Work out how long a TV programme or a journey takes together.

What your child will learn

We are learning to read timetables and work out how long journeys take.

Success looks like

I can read a timetable.
I can work out how long a journey takes.
I can plan using a timetable.

Key words

timetable: a table of times
duration: how long something lasts
depart: leave
arrive: get there

What to have ready

Paper and a pencil
This page on a computer, tablet or phone
For the hands-on part: Find a real bus or train timetable online and plan a journey: when to leave and when you arrive.

The big ideas (for the adult)

A timetable lists the times when a bus or train is at each stop. Read along a row for a stop and down a column for one journey.

To find how long a journey takes, count on from the start time to the end time: first to the next hour, then the rest.

Check whether times are am or pm, or written on the 24-hour clock.

The lesson, step by step

45 minutes in 5 parts
Part	Time	How it is checked
Starter: quick recall	5 min	Marked by Classfern
Teaching input	10 min	Not assessed, self-checked
Worked examples and guided practice	9 min	Not assessed, marked by Classfern
Independent practice	15 min	Marked by Classfern
Plenary and exit ticket	6 min	Marked by Classfern, self-checked

Starter, "your turn", practice and exit ticket are marked by Classfern. Worked examples and teaching are not assessed. The hands-on task and the reflection are self-assessed. Explanations in talk are judged by the parent and not recorded.

The lesson

It runs here on the page. No sign-up and no names – progress is kept only in this browser.

Homework and practice at home

20 minutes: 10 practice questions, 3 multiple-choice questions and 2 to remember from earlier work, then a short reflection. New questions every time, all marked instantly.

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Curriculum

National Curriculum for England, Year 5: “complete, read and interpret information in tables, including timetables”

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