Word Problems | Division | Year 5

Practise all different types and contexts for division word problems with your Year 5 pupils. This worksheet contains 11 reasoning and problem solving questions to encourage your Year 5 pupils to develop their understanding of division. The questions progress in difficulty, culminating in a challenge question. Word problems can be used as individual tasks or to develop mathematical conversations through partner, small group or whole class work. Teachers regularly request word problems that expose pupils to a wide variety of contexts and problem solving techniques on a single topic. With this resource pupils can develop confidence in reasoning and problem solving using their division knowledge and skills before moving on to more complex mixed topic problems.

Year 5 division word problems worksheet

• Division in real-life scenarios
• Application in everyday contexts such as money
• Missing numbers in short division calculations
• Division with and without remainders