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Worksheet directions

Grade 4 • Independent Practice • Work on your own. Show your calculations or reasoning where needed.

Sample questions

  1. A runner completes 3 laps of 400 meters, then runs 250 more meters. How far short of 2,000 meters is the runner? Answer: ___
  2. Four teams each collect 36 cans. A fifth team collects 29. They pack the cans into full boxes of 8. How many full boxes and loose cans are there? Answer: ___
  3. A library starts with 420 books. It receives 6 boxes of 25 books, then lends 185 books. How many books remain? Answer: ___
  4. A club has 6 boxes of 24 tiles. It uses 24 tiles, then shares the rest equally among 5 tables. Use the part-whole model to write an equation for t, the number at each table. Answer: ___
  5. A bakery makes 9 trays of 18 rolls. It sells 114 rolls and shares the rest equally among 6 volunteers. How many rolls does each volunteer receive? Answer: ___
  6. A class has 4 packs of 20 pencils. It uses 13 pencils, then shares the rest equally among 5 tables. How many pencils does each table get, and how many are left? Write an equation with p for the pencils per table. Answer: ___

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Common Core connections

Source labels: 4.OA.A.3. Review the learning goals below to check the fit for your class.

  • 4.OA.A.3 — Multistep problems with remainders

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