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✖️ 4th grade math · Multiply & Divide

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Do one step at a time and check each answer.

Worked example

A shop has 3 bags with 4 oranges in each. It gets 19 more oranges. How many oranges does it have now?
Answer: 31
Step 1: 3 × 4 = 12. Step 2: 12 + 19 = 31. Answer: 31.

For grown-ups: Multistep problems with remainders. Below: three problems to try with the worked answers, and a free printable sheet. Children can practise the same skill as a game, with no sign-up and no ads.

  • CCSS 4.OA.A.3
What this practises, for teachers

Practices multistep problems with remainders (4.OA.A.3). A printable sheet with its answer key, worked answers on the page, no accounts.

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Try three

  1. A shop has 3 packs with 7 cards in each. It gets 6 more cards. How many cards does it have now?
    Show the answer and how
    Answer: 27
    Step 1: 3 × 7 = 21. Step 2: 21 + 6 = 27. Answer: 27.
  2. A shop has 9 bags with 6 oranges in each. It gets 9 more oranges. How many oranges does it have now?
    Show the answer and how
    Answer: 63
    Step 1: 9 × 6 = 54. Step 2: 54 + 9 = 63. Answer: 63.
  3. A shop has 23 crates with 12 apples in each. It gets 97 more apples. How many apples does it have now?
    Show the answer and how
    Answer: 373
    Step 1: 23 × 12 = 276. Step 2: 276 + 97 = 373. Answer: 373.

Before and after

Learn first: Times as many (4th)

Comes next: Factors, multiples and primes (4th)

Name: ____________________Date: ____________Score: ____ / 12

Leftovers in stories (4th grade)

  1. A shop has 9 boxes with 9 pencils in each. It gets 10 more pencils. How many pencils does it have now?
  2. A shop has 7 trays with 9 muffins in each. It sells 53 muffins. How many muffins are left?
  3. A shop has 5 trays with 7 muffins in each. It sells 8 muffins. How many muffins are left?
  4. A shop has 8 boxes with 6 pencils in each. It gets 26 more pencils. How many pencils does it have now?
  5. A shop has 9 packs with 7 cards in each. It gets 26 more cards. How many cards does it have now?
  6. A shop has 9 boxes with 4 pencils in each. It gets 15 more pencils. How many pencils does it have now?
  7. A shop has 6 crates with 5 apples in each. It sells 21 apples. How many apples are left?
  8. A shop has 4 crates with 9 apples in each. It sells 15 apples. How many apples are left?
  9. A shop has 4 bags with 5 oranges in each. It sells 6 oranges. How many oranges are left?
  10. A shop has 9 bags with 8 oranges in each. It gets 22 more oranges. How many oranges does it have now?
  11. A shop has 14 bags with 38 oranges in each. It gets 106 more oranges. How many oranges does it have now?
  12. One box holds 32 pencils and another box holds 41 pencils. Each pencil costs 5 cents. What do all the pencils cost in cents?

Answer key

  1. 91
  2. 10
  3. 27
  4. 74
  5. 89
  6. 51
  7. 9
  8. 21
  9. 14
  10. 94
  11. 638
  12. 365 cents

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