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Food Bank Packing Day: Multistep Problems and Remainders

Grade 4 food bank word problems with all four operations, remainder decisions, letter equations, and estimation checks.

Grade 4MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to4.OA.A.3

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  • Single worksheet
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  • 1 Common Core standard
  • Printable answer key
  • 12 questions
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Details

Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 4
Subject
Math
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students solve multistep word problems with whole numbers using all four operations.
  • Students decide whether to round up, drop, or report the remainder in a division story.
  • Students write equations with a letter for the unknown and use estimation to check answers.

How to use

Read the first story aloud and model a quick sketch for each step. In the second section, have students explain their remainder choices to a partner before you check answers.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

4.OA.A.3

Solve multistep story problems with whole numbers and the four operations, including remainders.

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Food Bank Packing Day: Multistep Problems and Remainders

Solve stories with more than one step, decide what to do with remainders, and check with estimates.

Packing day problems

Volunteers are packing food at the community food bank. Solve each problem. Each one has more than one step.

1.
Volunteers collected 238 cans of soup on Monday and 194 cans of soup on Tuesday. They pack all the cans into boxes that hold 8 cans each.

Number of boxes they fill:   boxes

2.
The food bank needs to fill 600 grocery bags. On Saturday, 9 volunteers each filled 45 bags. How many bags still need to be filled?

  bags

3.
The food bank got 5 cases of granola bars with 36 bars in each case. Volunteers make snack bags with 7 bars in each bag. They make as many full snack bags as they can.

Full snack bags:  
Granola bars left over:  

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