Time

Use your knowledge of angles to work out how many degrees the hour and minute hands of a clock travel through in different amounts of time.

Twizzle, a female giraffe, needs transporting to another zoo. Which route will give the fastest journey?

How long is it between 5:55 and the next time all three digits on a digital clock are the same?

Albert Einstein could see two clocks which were out of sync. For what fraction of the day did they show the same time?

How many leap years will there be between 2001 and 3001?

Mike and Monisha meet at the race track, which is 400m round. Just to make a point, Mike runs anticlockwise whilst Monisha runs clockwise. Where will they meet on their way around and will they ever meet at the start again? If so, after how many circuits?

Two engines, at opposite ends of a single track railway line, set off towards one another just as a fly, sitting on the front of one of the engines, sets off flying along the railway line...

A bus route has a total duration of 40 minutes. Every 10 minutes, two buses set out, one from each end. How many buses will one bus meet on its way from one end to the other end?

N people visit their friends staying N kilometres along the coast. Some walk along the cliff path at N km an hour, the rest go by car. How long is the road?

A train leaves on time. After it has gone 8 miles (at 33mph) the driver looks at his watch and sees that the hour hand is exactly over the minute hand. When did the train leave the station?