Solving Dividing 1 into 3 Digit Worksheet

Dividing a three-digit number by a one-digit number is the moment long division stops being a set of steps and starts being a tool a student can trust. Fourth graders who can divide 738 by 6, or work out what to do with the 2 books left over after 236 are packed nine to a box, are ready for the multi-step problems waiting for them all year. The Solving Dividing 1 into 3 Digit Worksheet gives them that practice in a clean, uncrowded format, with room under every problem to actually show the work instead of guessing at an answer.

This 4th grade division worksheet opens with six long division problems, each set in the standard divisor-and-bracket notation with a generous work space beneath it. Three of the six divide evenly and three leave a remainder, so students have to check their work rather than assume every answer comes out clean. The page finishes with a story problem about packing books for a school book sale, complete with a shaded work box and two answer lines: one for how many boxes fill completely, and one for how many boxes are really needed once the leftovers are counted. Print it as morning work, as a homework page, or as a quick check before a unit test.

What’s Included

• 1 print-ready PDF worksheet
• Answer key
• 6 long division problems (three-digit dividends, one-digit divisors, mixed exact and remainder answers)
• 1 multi-step word problem with a work box and two answer lines

There are three reasons this page helps division finally click. First, the mix of exact quotients and remainders forces real checking, which is where careless place-value errors get caught. Second, the wide work space under each bracket invites students to write out every multiply-and-subtract step, so a teacher can see exactly where a mistake started instead of just marking an answer wrong. Third, the Solving Dividing 1 into 3 Digit Worksheet ends with a problem that asks what the remainder means in the real world, which is the skill state assessments test far more often than bare computation.

Teachers and parents can stretch this practice well beyond the page. Hand a student a jar of counters and a stack of paper cups and let them physically share out 100 or so objects until the leftover pile makes the idea of a remainder obvious. Turn snack time into division: 24 crackers shared among 5 friends leaves what? Have students write their own book-sale problem for a partner to solve, then trade and check each other’s work. Skip counting aloud by the divisor before dividing also speeds up estimation enormously, since a student who knows the nines can spot the quotient long before finishing the algorithm.

Related Resources

• Long Division No Remainders Worksheet
• Long Division with Remainders Worksheet
• Division Fact Fluency Worksheet
• Counting By Nines Song (Have Fun Teaching)