4.MD.2 — Measurement Word Problems: Four Operations
Practice solving real-world word problems involving distances, time, liquid volumes, masses, and money using all four operations, including fractions and decimals.
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Three different problem sets — same skill, same layout, fresh numbers.
Preview — Set A
Read each word problem carefully, then solve using addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division.
- 1.Maria ran 2.5 miles on Monday and 3.75 miles on Wednesday. How many miles did she run in total?
- 2.A water tank holds 48 liters. A farmer pours the water equally into 6 buckets. How many liters does each bucket hold?
- 3.Jake had $15.50. He spent $7.25 on lunch. How much money does Jake have left?
- 4.A ribbon is 9.6 meters long. A craft teacher cuts it into 4 equal pieces. How long is each piece?
- 5.A movie starts at 1:15 PM and lasts 2 hours and 45 minutes. What time does the movie end?
- 6.Emma collects cans for recycling. She collected 3.5 kilograms on Saturday and 4.25 kilograms on Sunday. How many kilograms did she collect altogether?
- 7.A school trip is 136 miles long. The bus has already traveled 79 miles. How many more miles does the bus need to travel?
- 8.Liam drinks 0.25 liters of juice at breakfast every day. How many liters of juice does he drink in 8 days?
- 9.A store sold 5 scarves for $42.50 total. Each scarf costs the same price. How much does one scarf cost?
- 10.Practice soccer starts at 3:30 PM and ends at 5:15 PM. How long is soccer practice?
- 11.A recipe needs 1.5 cups of sugar. Sofia wants to make 6 batches of the recipe. How many cups of sugar does she need in all?
- 12.Three friends share a bag of trail mix equally. The bag weighs 4.5 kilograms. How many kilograms does each friend get?
- 13.A garden hose releases 7.5 liters of water per minute. How many liters of water will flow out in 4 minutes?
- 14.Tom saved $124.75 in January and $98.50 in February. How much money did he save in both months combined?
- 15.A hiking trail is 12.8 kilometers long. A group has already hiked 5.6 kilometers. How many kilometers are left to hike?
- 16.A librarian has 56 books to place equally on 7 shelves. How many books go on each shelf?
- 17.An ice cream shop uses 0.75 liters of milk for each milkshake. How many liters of milk are needed to make 8 milkshakes?
- 18.Maya earned $6.50 per hour helping her neighbor. She worked for 4 hours. How much money did Maya earn?
- 19.A train leaves the station at 8:40 AM and arrives at its destination at 11:10 AM. How long did the train ride take?
- 20.A fish tank contains 36.8 liters of water. After some evaporates, it holds 29.5 liters. How many liters evaporated?
- 21.Sam has a piece of lumber that is 7.2 meters long. He cuts it into 9 equal pieces. How long is each piece?
- 22.A bakery sold muffins for $1.25 each. They sold 24 muffins in one morning. How much money did the bakery earn from muffins?
What this worksheet covers
There are 22 measurement problems here — one page to work, one page of answers to check against — and Sets B and C repeat the layout with different numbers. What makes this set particular: the problems are written as situations that have to be translated before they can be calculated and operands run to two decimal places, so the decimal points have to be lined up rather than the right-hand digits. Problems 8 and 15, for instance, are "Liam drinks 0.25 liters of juice at breakfast every day.…" and "A hiking trail is 12.8 kilometers long. A group has already…". It is written against Common Core 4.MD.2 — Measurement & Data, grade 4.
Skills practised
The grade 4 measurement sequence covers converting within the customary and metric systems, feet and inches together, and area and perimeter; this page sits inside it. What a student is asked to do here is measurement Word Problems: Four Operations. Working the page asks a student to read a situation and choose an operation before computing, keep the decimal points aligned, and carry money notation through to the answer.
About the mixed review format
Mixed review changes the problem shape as the page goes on, so the 22 problems here cover more than one shape rather than one procedure repeated; problem 8, "Liam drinks 0.25 liters of juice at breakfast every day.…" sits next to problems of a different kind. Perimeter, area, conversions and time on one page keep the student choosing the right formula for each problem.
Set A, Set B and Set C
Set A is the sheet as it was first published on MathSheetLab, and Sets B and C were derived from it problem by problem: each number became a slot redrawn with the same shape, and every answer was recomputed exactly. Where Set A's problem 12 is "Three friends share a bag of trail mix equally. The bag…", Set B's is "A recipe needs 1.5 cups of sugar. Rosa wants to make 5…".
22 story problem(s) drawn from the 4.MD.2 context family (measurement stories with decimals, money and time) — parameters inferred from the standard and grade
How to use this worksheet
Give this mixed review uninterrupted. At grade 4, measurement is where procedure and recall have to run at the same time, and 22 problems done in fragments hide which of the two is the problem. Ask the student to re-work one missed measurement problem from scratch on Set B rather than correcting it in place; the second attempt shows whether the method changed.
One mistake to watch for
A conversion multiplies when it should divide: 36 inches becomes 432 feet. Watch problem 15 of this mixed review — "A hiking trail is 12.8 kilometers long. A group has already…" — for this one.
The direction of the conversion is not being reasoned about.
Ask "should the answer be a bigger number or a smaller one?" before touching the factor; feet are bigger units so there are fewer of them.
Other grade 4 measurement formats
The same skill in the other formats available at this grade.
- Drill — Grade 4 Measurement Drill, 30 problems
- Timed Drill — Grade 4 Measurement Timed Drill, 72 problems
- Missing Number — Grade 4 Measurement Missing Number, 24 problems
- Word Problems — 4.MD.1 — Measurement Conversions Word Problems, 22 problems
A step either side
The same format one grade down and one grade up — the easier sheet is often the faster fix when this one is not landing.
- Grade 3 Measurement Mixed Review — grade 3, 30 problems
- Grade 5 Measurement Mixed Review — grade 5, 30 problems
Mixed Review sheets in other grade 4 topics
No paywall and no account — download any set of this grade 4 measurement mixed review, and the answers for all 22 problems are in the matching key.