Year 5 · Spring term · Statistics · Step 5
Year 5 Read and interpret timetables worksheets
Read bus and train timetables to find times, journey lengths and connections. A free editable Word sheet with eight fluency and six reasoning questions. The answers follow the questions: the same sheet again with every answer in red.
Download the worksheets
Print on A4 portrait: every page carries the sheet twice, side by side, so you can cut down the middle and two pupils each get a half to stick in their books. Every question sits in its own box and pupils write their answers in their book. The answers follow the questions in the file: the same sheet again with every answer in red. It opens in Word, Google Docs, Pages and LibreOffice, so you can change numbers, delete questions or add your own. There is no scaffolded version of this step yet.
Not scaffolded sheet
The same questions without the extra support. For pupils working at the expected standard: eight fluency questions first, then the reasoning questions.
Sample questions from this step
These are real questions from the first set of the sheet (two from the fluency page, two from the reasoning page). Open each one to see the answer.
- Here is part of a bus timetable.What time does the 2nd bus leave or arrive at Green Lane? ____
Show the answer
10:05
- Here is part of a bus timetable.Rosa gets to the Town Hall stop at 10:15.What time is the next bus she can catch? ____
Show the answer
10:19
- Here is a bus timetable.Dora: I missed the 09:15 bus from High Street by 2 minutes. I need to be at School by 10:56.Can Dora still get there in time? Circle yes or no.Circle yes or no.Explain how you know.
Show the answer
Yes; Yes. The next bus from High Street is at 09:45. It gets to School at 10:49, which is not after 10:56.
- Here is a bus timetable. The buses run only at the times shown.Sam: I never have to wait more than 20 minutes for a bus at Town Hall.Is Sam correct? Circle yes or no.Circle yes or no.Explain how you know.
Show the answer
No; No. The longest gap between two buses at Town Hall is 30 minutes, which is more than 20.
What is on each sheet
- Fluency: eight questions that start easy and get harder, with the key skill of the step practised in different ways.
- Reasoning: questions with pictures, tables and number lines (spot the mistake, true or false and explain, puzzles with one answer, an open-ended task).
- Answers in the same file: the sheet again with every answer in red, so there is only one file to download.
- Boba characters give the instructions in speech bubbles. They are decoration only.
Why one set of questions?
- Everyone works on the same content, and support comes from scaffolds instead of different, easier tasks. This follows the mastery approach described by the NCETM and the thinking in Ofsted's 2021 mathematics research review.
- Worked examples and visual representations lighten the load for pupils who need it, as the Education Endowment Foundation describes.