Grade 4 Lesson plan
Barrowgate's Mill Row Water Main: Pipe Sections and Remainders
A grade 4 lesson in the fictional town of Barrowgate where students divide a water main's length by pipe-section length and decide what each remainder means.
Common Core Math · Grade 4
4.NBT.B.6 Divide multi-digit numbers and interpret remainders
Find whole-number quotients and remainders with up to four-digit dividends and one-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models.
Why water teaches this standard well
Students divide a month's total gallons used by four weeks to find an even weekly share, then decide what a leftover remainder means for the final week. Dividing a real water bill's usage into equal parts gives long division an immediate, checkable purpose.
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15 materials aligned to 4.NBT.B.6
Lesson plans
Grade 4 Lesson plan
A Day with a Water Plant Operator: Grade 4 Water Math
A 45-minute grade 4 lesson following a fictional plant operator's shift, where students solve multistep tank and delivery problems and interpret a remainder.
Grade 4 Lesson plan
Quillmont Garden Drip Timers: Minutes, Gallons, and Trips
A grade 4 lesson at a fictional community garden, where students convert hours to minutes, multiply a pump rate by run time, and interpret a leftover trip.
Grade 4 Lesson plan
Hartwell's Water Main Break: Multistep Delivery Problems
A grade 4 lesson using a fictional water main break to practice multiplying homes by cases needed, then dividing by van capacity and interpreting the remainder.
Worksheets
Grade 4 Worksheet
Ottercomb Isle's Water Barge: Sharing, Filling, and Rounding
A grade 4 worksheet where students divide a fictional island barge's daily fresh-water output among villages and tanks, interpret remainders, and round totals.
Grade 4 Worksheet
Spindrift Bay Refill Station: Rounding Recycled Water Totals
A grade 4 worksheet where students round a fictional coastal town's recycled water totals to the hundred, thousand, and ten thousand, then divide totals evenly.
Math problem sets
Grade 4 Math problem set
Erosion Rates from Sedgeholt School's Four Slope Trays
Nine grade 4 problems using a four-tray erosion test record, turning grams of washed-out soil into rates per minute and comparing trays that differ only in slope.
Grade 4 Math problem set
Culvermere Marsh Mussel Beds: Multiplying Gallons Filtered
A grade 4 problem set about two fictional freshwater mussel beds, where students multiply, add, and divide to find how much marsh water the mussels filter.
Grade 4 Math problem set
Shepton Village's Pipe Order: Sections, Bundles, and Workdays
A grade 4 problem set where students divide a fictional village's pipe replacement into 6-foot sections, order bundles, and interpret a leftover remainder.
Grade 4 Math problem set
Dunmore Drought Delivery: Division and Leftover Barrels
A grade 4 problem set where a fictional drought town divides water among streets and trucks, finding quotients and interpreting the remainder to plan extra trips.
Grade 4 Math problem set
Opening the Gates at Nockford Dam: Whole-Number Problems
Nine grade 4 problems set at a fictional dam on the Varrow River, using gate release rates in gallons per minute to practice multiplication and division with remainders.
Grade 4 Math problem set
Turnbull Meter Route: Multiplying and Dividing House Counts
A grade 4 problem set following a fictional water meter technician's route, multiplying houses per street and dividing a route total across a work week.
Grade 4 Math problem set
Granite Falls Treatment Plant: Pumping, Dividing, and Rounding Gallons
A grade 4 math set where students multiply a pump's flow rate by minutes and days, divide totals among tanks, and round results for a fictional plant's report.
Classroom activities
Grade 4 Classroom activity
Larkspur Storm Drain Brigade: A Timed Litter-Removal Relay
A grade 4 relay activity where teams race a storm timer to clear litter tokens from model storm drains, multiplying totals and dividing a team's haul with a remainder.
Quizzes & test questions
Grade 4 Quiz & test questions
Hazel Ridge Water Systems Unit Test: Pumping, Trips, and Conversions
A grade 4 unit test on a fictional town's water system, mixing multiple-choice, short-answer, and computation items on multiplication, division, and unit conversion.