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Time Conversion Worksheets

The worksheet generator on this page produces time conversion worksheets with real, freshly randomised numbers — 20 of them per sheet by default — plus the answer key a parent or teacher needs to mark it quickly. Two of the problems on the sheet as it stands are 12 minutes = □ seconds and 3 weeks = □ days — answers 720 and 21 — and a new set is one click away.

📄 TIME CONVERSION WORKSHEETS — A NEW SHEET EVERY TIME YOU PRESS THE BUTTON
🎲 New set of problems

‘New set of problems’ opens the generator in its own tab. There you can change the problem count and turn the answer key on or off. ‘Print or save as PDF’ opens the print dialog — choose Save as PDF in the printer list to keep the file. The sheet fits US Letter and A4, and the answer key prints on its own page.

The skill behind these problems

Customary conversions have to be learned as facts, twelve inches to a foot and three feet to a yard, because a problem like 3 weeks = □ days offers no pattern to fall back on.

Because each sheet is new, the child cannot rely on remembering a particular converted value.

Metric conversions are all powers of ten, which makes them a decimal place-value exercise as much as a measurement one.

Converting between units is multiplication or division by a conversion factor, and the only real decision is which way round. A conversion such as 12 minutes = □ seconds gives 720 because the new unit is smaller, so there must be more of them.

Teachers usually place time conversion worksheets alongside the measurement and data strand for this grade, which is where the skill sits in the majority of US state frameworks.

A sample of this sheet, with answers

These six come from the sheet loaded on this page. Press the button and the numbers change, but the shape stays the same (hours, minutes, seconds, weeks and days).
#ProblemAnswerWhat to check
112 minutes = □ seconds720Watch for: losing a factor of ten in metric work
23 weeks = □ days21Check: using the wrong conversion factor
32 weeks = □ days14Look at: multiplying when division was needed
410 minutes = □ seconds600Ask about: assuming metric and customary units interchange neatly
55 weeks = □ days35Watch for: dropping the unit from the answer
611 minutes = □ seconds660Check: converting in two steps and rounding in the middle

Try one together first

Here is one worked through. 3 weeks = □ days gives 21. If your child arrives somewhere other than 21 on 3 weeks = □ days, look at the working rather than the answer: nearly every wrong result comes from a skipped step, not an unknown fact.

A good first problem to do together is 12 minutes = □ seconds, which comes out at 720. Do 12 minutes = □ seconds once with the child narrating, then hand over the pencil and start the clock on the other 20 problems.

Where children usually slip up

A 10-minute routine that works

  1. Use a pencil, not a pen. Children working on converting units of time rethink far more often when erasing is allowed, and you get to see exactly where the rethinking happened on an item like 2 weeks = □ days.
  2. Stop the session at the time limit even if the sheet is unfinished, and note where the child got to. A half sheet done well is better data than a whole sheet rushed.
  3. Write the finish time and the score at the top of every sheet. Two weeks of those two numbers tells you more about progress on converting units of time than any single test result.
  4. If two days in a row come out under 10 minutes with everything correct, that is the signal to move up: either numbers bigger than 12 minutes = □ seconds uses, or the next skill in the sequence.
  5. Keep the session to about 10 minutes. A child working at this level who is still counting on fingers will need longer than that on a line like 12 minutes = □ seconds, and that is fine: the timer is a measurement, never a punishment.

Marking the sheet

Every generated sheet carries its own key on a separate printed page, which lets a child self-mark without seeing the answers while they work.

The answer key is generated with the worksheet, not written by hand, so it always matches the sheet in front of you — 12 minutes = □ seconds is listed as 720, 3 weeks = □ days as 21, and so on down the page.

How to print this worksheet

The sheet is laid out to fit one page on both US Letter and A4. Leave the browser scaling at 100% and turn headers and footers off, and the 20 problems land inside the margins on either paper size.

Printing works the same on US Letter and A4, because the layout uses relative widths rather than fixed inches. Set margins to default and scaling to 100%, and all 20 problems fit.

Frequently asked questions

Are these worksheets really free?
Yes, completely. The page is supported by advertising, not by subscriptions, so there is no limit on how many time conversion worksheets you print.
Is the answer key included?
Yes, on its own page behind the worksheet. For the sheet loaded right now it shows 720 for 12 minutes = □ seconds and 21 for 3 weeks = □ days.
Why practise conversions separately?
Because in word problems the conversion is one step among several, and a slow conversion derails the whole problem.
Do children need to memorise the conversion factors?
The customary ones, yes — they are arbitrary. The metric ones follow from the prefixes, so understanding the prefixes replaces memorisation.

Print a sheet of time conversion worksheets, run it for 10 minutes, mark it together, and come back tomorrow for a different set of numbers on the same skill.

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Last updated: 2026-09-13