Multistep Division Number Stories

Mr. John has 24 sheep and he wants to divide them between his 3 sons. How many sheep does each son get?

• 8

• 5

• 2

Mrs. Norvell has 72 books in her office. She will put these books on 8 shelves. She will put the same number of books on each shelf. How many books will Mrs. Norvell put on each shelf?

• 8 books

• 9 books

• 80 books

• 576 books

Johnny has 64 toy cars. He shares his toy cars equally with seven other classmates. How many toys will each child receive?

• 5

• 6

• 7

• 8

Mrs. Walsh is making party bags for Skylar’s birthday party. She puts 30 toys equally into 5 party bags. How many toys did Mrs. Walsh put in each bag?

• 6

• 4

• 2

• 25

Jack Prelutsky was working on a new book of poems. The book is going to be divided into 6 sections. Originally, Prelutsky planned on writing 57 poems, but his publisher asked him to remove 21 poems so there could be an equal number of poems in each section. How many poems will go in each section of the book?

• 5 poems in each section

• 6 poems in each section

• 10 poems in each section

• 12 poems in each section

Coach bought 5 buckets of baseballs at the start of the season. Each bucket had 16 baseballs.

Coach divided the baseballs equally among 8 players.

How many baseballs did each player get?

• 80

• 10

• 29

• 128

Each pack of pencils contains 8 pencils. Sara bought 3 packs and divided them equally among 6 people. How many pencils did each person get?

• 24

• 4

• 17

• 5

Each pack of pencils contains 8 pencils. Sara bough 3 packs and divided them equally among 6 people. How many pencils did each person get? 

• 24

• 4

• 17

• 5

• It is a one step and division problem

• Its is multistep and multipication problem

• Its is a multistep and division problem

• It is one step and multiplication problem

• It is a one step multiplication problem

• It is a multistep division problem

• It is a multistep multiplicaton problem

• It is a one step division problem