How it works
Round the divisor to guess. Multiply back to check. Fix by one if it is off.
Share each place, left to right.
What is left over is the remainder.
Worked examples
Exactly
- A baker packs 462 rolls into boxes of 42. How many full boxes? How many left?
- Guess: 42 is about 40, and 462 is about 440.
- 42 × 11 = 462 exactly.
- So the answer is 11 r 0.
A remainder
- A farm packs 4,027 eggs into trays of 72. How many full trays? How many left?
- 72 × 55 = 3960.
- 4027 − 3960 = 67 left.
- So the answer is 55 r 67.
A bigger one
- A shop puts 3,885 pencils into packs of 18. How many full packs? How many left?
- 18 × 215 = 3870.
- 3885 − 3870 = 15 left.
- So the answer is 215 r 15.
A taste of the worksheet
These are the first problems of set A. The printable sheet has many more, with an answer key.
- A baker packs 1,022 rolls into boxes of 73. How many full boxes? How many left?
- A baker packs 756 rolls into boxes of 63. How many full boxes? How many left?
- A baker packs 4,278 rolls into boxes of 93. How many full boxes? How many left?