Year 6 maths worksheets on division with remainders in word problems: 36 questions in three levels (All, Most, Some) with answers. Free PDF.

7-page A4 PDF from the Tiger Shark Education question bank. All: Share equally, and find what is left over. Most: Decide whether to round the answer up or down. Some: Write the remainder as a fraction or a decimal. Each level is two pages of six questions, each with a squared working area, and the last page has every answer, with short working for multi-step questions. Each level is also available as its own 3-page PDF. Example questions from the Some level: 138 chocolate bars are shared equally among 30 children. How many bars does each child get? Give your answer as a mixed number / 918 litres of paint are shared equally into 30 tins. How many litres in each tin? Give your answer as a decimal.

What are remainders in real-life problems? When a division doesn’t work out exactly, the context decides what to do with the remainder. Sometimes you round up (how many minibuses are needed for 50 children if each holds 12?), sometimes you round down (how many full boxes?), and sometimes the remainder itself is the answer or should be written as a fraction or decimal.

Common mistakes and tips: The most common mistake is writing ‘4 r 2’ as the final answer when the question needs a whole number, or rounding the wrong way. Ask children to reread the question and picture the situation: you can’t book half a minibus. Writing the answer in a full sentence is a quick way to check it makes sense.

This topic is part of the Year 6 National Curriculum for maths, and it regularly appears on the KS2 SATs papers. The All, Most and Some levels let you check basic fluency first and then move on to the multi-step, contextual questions found on the reasoning papers.

How teachers use these sheets: as a lesson’s independent task, as a starter to revisit a topic from earlier in the year, or as a revision pack in the weeks before the SATs. Children can mark their own work with the answer page, then explain one mistake to a partner to deepen understanding.

Reasoning and explanation: once children can answer the questions, ask them to explain their method to a partner or write a short explanation of one answer. The SATs reasoning papers include ‘explain how you know’ questions, and talking about methods deepens understanding far more than repeating calculations.

Use All for children working towards the expected standard, Most for secure Year 5 skills and Some for SATs-standard practice: three entry points to the same lesson. Suits whole-class differentiation, intervention groups, homework and SATs revision, and upper KS2 generally.

Part of a set of 42 Year 6 maths topics.