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Free 4th Grade Multi-Digit Addition Worksheets (4-digit)

This page makes free printable 4th grade addition worksheets on demand: press the button and you get a new sheet of 20 problems with a matching answer key, ready for US Letter or A4 paper. You will see items like 8,617 + 1,198 and 6,354 + 3,440 on the printed page, with 9,815 and 9,794 waiting on the answer key so nobody has to redo the arithmetic.

📄 4TH GRADE ADDITION WORKSHEETS — A NEW SHEET EVERY TIME YOU PRESS THE BUTTON
🎲 New set of problems

‘New set of problems’ opens the generator in its own tab. There you can change the problem count and turn the answer key on or off. ‘Print or save as PDF’ opens the print dialog — choose Save as PDF in the printer list to keep the file. The sheet fits US Letter and A4, and the answer key prints on its own page.

The skill behind these problems

The problems here use four-digit numbers up to 9,999, which keeps the arithmetic honest without turning the page into a copying exercise. 8,617 + 1,198 and 6,354 + 3,440 are typical of the range.

What separates a confident adder from a slow one is rarely the method; it is whether the number bonds underneath are automatic. Watch how long the child hesitates before writing the first digit of 9,794.

Fluency in addition is usually described in two parts: knowing the single-digit facts by recall, and applying a written method to bigger numbers. This sheet exercises whichever of the two the number range implies — for 8,617 + 1,198 the answer 9,815 should come from memory, not from counting.

Because the addends are regenerated every time, a child cannot learn the sheet instead of the skill. Yesterday's page may have asked for 7,579 + 1,807; today's asks something else in the same shape.

In US classrooms these 4th grade addition worksheets are commonly aligned with the addition strand of most US state standards for this grade, though the exact wording varies from state to state.

Examples taken from this worksheet

These six come from the sheet loaded on this page. Press the button and the numbers change, but the shape stays the same (four-digit numbers up to 9,999).
#ProblemAnswerWhat to check
18,617 + 1,198 =9,815Watch for: counting on from the wrong number
26,354 + 3,440 =9,794Check: losing the place columns
37,579 + 1,807 =9,386Look at: treating a longer number as a bigger one
41,300 + 4,351 =5,651Ask about: guessing on the near-tens
51,311 + 2,692 =4,003Watch for: forgetting the carried digit
61,775 + 4,913 =6,688Check: adding right to left, then reading left to right

One problem worked through

Try 7,579 + 1,807 together before letting the child start alone. The answer to 7,579 + 1,807 is 9,386, and talking through how it was reached takes about a minute and saves several minutes of guessing later in the sheet.

Work 1,300 + 4,351 out loud as a demonstration. It gives 5,651. Children who hear 1,300 + 4,351 reasoned through once at the start of a session make noticeably fewer errors in the ten minutes that follow.

The three errors worth watching for

How to run this as a 10-minute daily drill

  1. Do not raise the number of problems until the accuracy is steady. Going from 20 correct-but-slow problems to more problems only multiplies the same mistake.
  2. Run the sheet at the same time each day. Ten focused minutes before dinner beats an hour on Sunday, because multi-digit addition is a recall skill: 8,617 + 1,198 has to arrive without being worked out, and recall is built by frequency.
  3. If two days in a row come out under 10 minutes with everything correct, that is the signal to move up: either numbers bigger than 8,617 + 1,198 uses, or the next skill in the sequence.
  4. Write the finish time and the score at the top of every sheet. Two weeks of those two numbers tells you more about progress on multi-digit addition than any single test result.
  5. Stop the session at the time limit even if the sheet is unfinished, and note where the child got to. A half sheet done well is better data than a whole sheet rushed.

About the answer key

Because the numbers are random, there is no shared answer list to look up: the key printed behind your sheet is the only one that fits it, and it shows 9,815 for 8,617 + 1,198.

Every generated sheet carries its own key on a separate printed page, which lets a child self-mark without seeing the answers while they work.

Printing and saving as PDF

To save these 4th grade addition worksheets instead of printing them, choose 'Save as PDF' in the printer list. You get the worksheet and the answer key as a single PDF, on Letter or A4 depending on your printer settings.

For a class set, print one sheet, press the new-worksheet button and print again. Each child gets different numbers on the same skill, so nobody can copy the answer to 8,617 + 1,198 from a neighbour.

Frequently asked questions

How many different sheets can I make?
As many as you want. The numbers are randomised each time, so printing five sheets in a row gives five different sets of 20 problems on the same skill.
What comes after this sheet?
Once 20 problems are correct inside 10 minutes, widen the numbers or move to addition with regrouping. Both routes are linked at the bottom of this page.
Should my child use fingers for these?
At the start, yes. Fingers are a legitimate strategy for multi-digit addition; the aim is that they stop being needed, and you see that happening when the time per sheet falls while the score holds — time an item like 1,311 + 2,692 to check.
Will these print correctly on A4?
Yes. These 4th grade addition worksheets fit both A4 and US Letter without clipping, as long as print scaling is left at 100% and browser headers and footers are switched off.

Print a sheet of 4th grade addition worksheets, run it for 10 minutes, mark it together, and come back tomorrow for a different set of numbers on the same skill.

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Last updated: 2026-09-13