Multistep Word Problems (Grade 4) Worksheets for 4th Grade

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Grade 4MathMixed Math PracticeCCSS 4.OA.A.2CCSS 4.OA.A.3

Skill: Multistep word problems with whole numbers, including remainders

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Teaching tips and what to try next

Multistep problems with remainders ask what the remainder means: sometimes you round up (one more box is needed), sometimes you drop it. Talk through that choice for each problem. For more practice, try Two-Step Word Problems or Long Division With One-Digit Divisors.

10 versions, each with its own answer key

Same skill and layout, a fresh set of problems in every version, so children can keep practicing without repeating a page. Problems are not repeated between versions unless a skill has only a small number of possible problems (for example, the addition facts within 10).

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About this worksheet

This fourth grade worksheet has eight multistep word problems about everyday things: packing toy cars into boxes, selling concert tickets, a tree farm, a fence, a bakery, snowfall, a museum train ride and a book drive. The problems use all four operations with whole numbers, and some of them have remainders.

Remainder problems are the heart of this page. In one story, children must decide that a remainder means one more roll of fencing is needed, so they round up. In another, the remainder is left over and the answer is just the number of full boxes. Thinking about what the remainder means in the story is exactly what standard 4.OA.A.3 asks for. There is also a multiplicative comparison problem ("times as many"). Each of the 10 versions has new numbers and a new order.

How to use it: ask your child to underline the question first, then list the steps before computing. Estimating the answer before solving is a good way to check whether the final answer makes sense. Encourage neat work, since multistep problems are easier to check when each step is written down.

The answer key gives every answer with its label. For more practice, see our Division With Remainders worksheet.