Mastering Long Division with Remainders | Single-Digit Divisors | 4th–6th Grade

Strengthen your students’ confidence with long division using this powerful, scaffolded resource designed for 4th, 5th, and 6th grade learners. This printable toolkit gives students the language, models, and structured support they need to truly understand division with remainders—not just follow steps.

Perfect for whole-group instruction, intervention, math centers, or small-group reteaching, this resource helps students use place value reasoning, precise mathematical language, and visual models to explain and defend their mathematical thinking.

⭐ What’s Inside:

✔ Essential Vocabulary Posters

Key terms defined in student-friendly language to build accuracy and comprehension.

✔ Step-by-Step Scaffolded Practice

Supports students as they learn to use place value models and numeric steps to solve long division problems with single-digit divisors.

✔ Remainders Practice Pages

Structured practice pages focusing on long division with remainders, including opportunities for students to explain their thinking.

✔ Visual Models & Proof Drawings

Students use area models, place value charts, and proof drawings to show and defend their solution strategies.

✔ Sentence Frames for Academic Language

Perfect for supporting all learners—these frames help students use precise mathematical language to describe steps, justify reasoning, and reflect on their work.

✔ “I Can” Success Criteria Posters

Student-friendly goals that make learning targets clear and measurable.

✔ Teacher Videos & Implementation Suggestions

Easy ideas for using these materials during centers, small groups, assessments, and intervention.

🎯 Students will be able to:

Use place value models to solve multi-digit division with single-digit divisors.
Represent their thinking using step-by-step numeric methods.
Use precise mathematical language to explain and justify each step.
Defend their reasoning using proof drawings or visual models.
Apply understanding of multiples of 10, 100, and 1,000 to simplify division.

📘 Standards Covered

4.OA.2 – Multiply or divide to solve word problems.
4.OA.3 – Solve multi-step word problems using the four operations.
4.NBT.6 – Find whole-number quotients of multi-digit dividends and one-digit divisors.
Works well for 5th and 6th grade review as well!

✨ Perfect For:

-Math Centers
-Small Group Instruction
-Intervention/RTI
-Independent Practice
-Early Finishers
-Test Prep
-Homework

🔍 Why Teachers Love It

This resource goes beyond worksheets—it gives students the tools, language, and support to deeply understand long division. With vocabulary support, visual models, sentence frames, and success criteria, students build confidence and mastery they can explain.