Most division stories a child meets share out evenly, and then real life does not. These free printable word problems share a pile that will not divide cleanly and ask the two questions that follow: how many each, and how many are left.
If they get stuck
The answer key prints on a separate page.
A remainder is where a child first has to read what the story wants done with the leftover. Twenty-five pencils shared among four children is six each with one over — but twenty-five children fitting four to a car needs seven cars, not six, because the one left over still has to travel. The arithmetic is identical; the answer is not, and deciding which is the whole point of the page.
Keeping the numbers small keeps the attention on that decision. A child who can already divide within the tables is not learning to divide here — they are learning that a division has two parts, the quotient and the remainder, and that the story says which one is the answer.
One question from a sheet like this one, worked a step at a time — with a sentence saying what just happened and why.
Division word problems with remainders, step by step