Vocabulary
Word Problems
Area Models and Partial Quotients
Compatible Numbers
Multiplication
100

The answer to a division problem.

What is the quotient?

100

There are 24 students in each class. If there are 6 classes, how many students are there altogether?

What is 144 students?

100

Create an area model for 264 ÷ 24 and find the quotient.

What is 11?

100

What is a compatible number for 41 when estimating 41 ÷ 5?

What is 40?

100

Solve 

125 × 8

Show your work.

What is 1,000?

200

The amount leftover after making equal groups by dividing.

What is the remainder?

200

A theater has 360 seats. The seats are arranged in 15 equal rows. How many seats are in each row?

What is 24 seats?

200

What is the first step when using partial quotients to solve a division problem?

What is find a multiple of the divisor that can be subtracted from the dividend?

200

Which compatible numbers would give you the best estimate for:

589 ÷ 58

A. 500 and 60
B. 600 and 60
C. 540 and 20
D. 600 and 20


What is 600 and 60?

200

Solve 36 × 10.

Show your work.

What is 360.

300

one of two numbers being multiplied.

What is factor.

300

A teacher has 5 boxes of pencils. Each box has 125 pencils. How many pencils does the teacher have?


What is 625 pencils?

300

Solve using partial quotients:

156 ÷ 12


What is 13?

300

Estimate:

811 ÷ 37

Which compatible numbers make the most sense?

A. 800 ÷ 40
B. 900 ÷ 30
C. 700 ÷ 20
D. 600 ÷ 40


What is 800 ÷ 40 = 20?

300

Solve 324 × 25.

Show your work.

What is 8,100?

400

The number that is being divided.

What is the dividend?

400

A school has 1,248 students. They are divided equally into 12 groups. How many students are in each group?


What is 104 students?

400

A rectangle has a height of 14 and sections with widths 10 and 3. What division problem does this area model represent?


What is 182 ÷ 14 = 13?

400

Estimate:

398 ÷ 6

Use compatible numbers.

What is approximately 400 ÷ 5 = 80?

400

Solve 5,021 × 32.

Show your work.

What is 106,672?

500

An estimated number that can be divided easily by another.

What is a compatible number?

500

A theater has 1,325 seats. If the same number of people attend each night for 5 nights, how many seats are filled altogether?

What is 6,625 seats?

500

Solve using partial quotients:

1652 ÷ 15

If there is a remainder, write it as a fraction.

What is 110 2/15.

500

Use compatible numbers to find two estimates for 3,671 ÷ 12.


What is 3,000 ÷ 10 = 300 and 4,000 ÷ 10 = 400?

500

Solve 523 × 267.

What is 139,641?

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