How is grade 6 different from grade 5?

The dividends grow into the thousands while the divisors stay two-digit, per 6.NS.B.2. The long division runs a step longer, and estimating first matters more because a misplaced digit hides easily in a four-digit dividend.

How does the answer key show remainders?

Two ways at once: the answer states the full groups and the leftover in words, like 110 full groups, 8 left over, and the solution line shows the division that produced it, 1548 ÷ 14 = 110 r8.

6th grade division word problems

6th grade division word problems worksheets

Grade 6 pushes the dividends into the thousands while the divisors stay two-digit, per 6.NS.B.2: 2,320 letters into mailbags of 16, 1,548 parts into kits of 14. Every story asks for the full groups and what's left over, so the answer has two parts and both matter.

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The kind of problems you'll get

Read each problem. Show your work. Write the number of full groups and the number left over.

Rosa folds 1202 T-shirts into totes that hold 20 each. How many totes can Rosa fill, and how many T-shirts are left?
Answer: 60
A bank wraps 2802 coins into rolls of 18. How many full rolls can it wrap, and how many coins are left?
Answer: 155
Ruby bundles 3034 flyers into packets of 20. How many full packets can Ruby make, and how many flyers are left?
Answer: 151

Every print pulls a fresh set of problems at this level, so a make-up test or a second sibling never gets the same sheet.

What's on each sheet

Division word problems. Read each problem. Show your work. Write the number of full groups and the number left over. 5 problems per page.

Every version prints on US Letter or A4, with its answer key after the problems.

How to teach this

Four-digit dividends reward a round-number estimate before the algorithm: 2,320 letters in bags of 16 is a bit more than 2,000 ÷ 20, so expect an answer above 100. The check stays multiply-back: quotient times divisor plus remainder must rebuild the dividend exactly, and at this size a one-digit slip is invisible without it.

Watch for: Kids write the remainder into the answer no matter what the question asks, so the school needs '6 r 4' vans. Ask what the leftover means in the story. Sometimes it rounds the answer up, sometimes it gets dropped, and sometimes it is the answer. Kids treat division as brand-new learning instead of multiplication reversed. Have them check every quotient by multiplying back: if 42 ÷ 7 = 6, then 7 × 6 must rebuild 42. Kids divide the numbers in the order they appear, even when the total comes second in the story. Have them find the total first and say it out loud. The big amount is the thing being split.

Common questions about division word problems

How is grade 6 different from grade 5?: The dividends grow into the thousands while the divisors stay two-digit, per 6.NS.B.2. The long division runs a step longer, and estimating first matters more because a misplaced digit hides easily in a four-digit dividend.
How does the answer key show remainders?: Two ways at once: the answer states the full groups and the leftover in words, like 110 full groups, 8 left over, and the solution line shows the division that produced it, 1548 ÷ 14 = 110 r8.

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Aligned to Common Core 6.NS.B.2. Reviewed by the One more sheet team. Content version 240, updated September 2026.

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