🧠 Multi-Step Word Problems: Show Your Thinking (4.OA.A.3)

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Solve multistep word problems with whole numbers, including remainders. Solve each problem and show your work.

1. A school orders 8 boxes of 12 pencils and gives away 20. How many pencils are left?

Show your work

2. Jin packs 68 eggs into cartons of 8. How many full cartons, and how many eggs left over?

Show your work

3. A school orders 3 boxes of 36 pencils and gives away 30. How many pencils are left?

Show your work

4. Kai packs 121 eggs into cartons of 8. How many full cartons, and how many eggs left over?

Show your work

5. A school orders 8 boxes of 17 pencils and gives away 45. How many pencils are left?

Show your work

6. Grace packs 109 eggs into cartons of 9. How many full cartons, and how many eggs left over?

Show your work

Explain: How did you solve problem 1? Could you check it another way?

Answer key: 1) 76 · 2) 8 cartons, 4 left · 3) 78 · 4) 15 cartons, 1 left · 5) 91 · 6) 12 cartons, 1 left

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Free Grade 4 math worksheet (Common Core 4.OA.A.3): multi-step word problems — problems with space to show work and explain reasoning, with answer key. Skill: Solve multistep word problems with whole numbers, including remainders. Level: Grade 4 — also suits Year 5 (UK).

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CCSS 4.OA.A.3: Solve multistep word problems, including remainders
Works as a morning-work page, a centre/station activity, homework or an early-finisher task.

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Solve multistep word problems with whole numbers, including remainders.

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