How it works
These division worksheets for grade 4 keep every divisor to one digit. The page opens on 3-digit ÷ 1-digit with remainders, written across. Other sheets give tens and hundreds facts, rectangle models and stories about the remainder.
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What grade 4 division covers
Common Core 4.NBT.6 asks for quotients and remainders with dividends of up to four digits and one-digit divisors, found by place value and by the link to multiplication. So a division worksheets grade 4 page needs no long division bracket: Texas 4.4(F) allows the standard algorithm beside other strategies. Start with Tens facts: 240 ÷ 6 from 24 ÷ 6, then Rectangle model: split a 3-digit dividend.
Teach the remainder with its check
47 ÷ 5 = 9 R 2 is right only if 9 × 5 + 2 = 47 and 2 is smaller than 5. Remainders with a check line on the answer key prints that check under every answer. Finish the check: 9 × 5 + 2 = ___ has pupils work it themselves.
- A pupil who writes 12 for 612 ÷ 6 needs A zero inside the quotient: 612 ÷ 6 = 102.
- Before a stories sheet, ask what a remainder could mean: one more boat, a short string, or spare balls.
Questions and answers
What division should a 4th grader know?
Dividing numbers of up to four digits by one digit, with remainders, and saying what a remainder means in a story. Common Core 4.OA.3 asks for the stories, and 4.OA.2 adds comparisons such as 84 is 7 times as many as 12.
Do fourth graders do long division?
Not by name in Common Core, which leaves the standard algorithm to grade 6. Grade 4 divides with place value, rectangles and facts. If your class does use the bracket, the long division page prints the same sizes under it.
Is there an answer key?
Yes. The key prints as the last page with every quotient and remainder, written 82 R 1. To print the problems alone, untick Answer key before you press Print.
How do I save a sheet as a PDF?
Press Print, then choose Save as PDF in your browser's print window. That makes a division worksheets grade 4 pdf of the sheet on screen, with its answer key on its own page.