Free · Grades 4–5 · 3 sections · 16 questions

Long division test

Exact quotients first, then remainders, then the word problems that decide what a remainder means.

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Long division is four steps on a loop — divide, multiply, subtract, bring down — and almost every wrong answer is a loop that lost its place rather than a fact that was not known. The first section is deliberately exact: nothing left over, so a mistake is visibly a mistake. The second introduces remainders, which is where the loop has to be trusted enough to stop.

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The word problems are last because a remainder means different things in different sentences. Thirty-two children and seats for six is five buses and two children standing, which needs six buses; thirty-two pounds shared six ways is five pounds each with two left in the tin. Same arithmetic, different answer — and no amount of clean quotients will show whether a child can tell which is which.