Description
Long division practice does not have to mean a page filled with twenty nearly identical problems. In this 5th grade mission, students pose as art buyers and use division clues to recover a stolen painting before it disappears.
Students will practice:
- find whole-number quotients with up to four-digit dividends and two-digit divisors
- solve division problems that result in remainders
- apply the expectations of 5.NBT.B.6 while decoding clues and messages
Five puzzles are included in both printable and digital formats. The print version comes in color and black-and-white and can be split into task cards or short review stations. The digital version is self-checking, has no clues to hide, and runs through Google Forms without requiring student Google accounts.
This is best used once students have learned a division strategy and are ready to build fluency, accuracy, and persistence with two-digit divisors.
