Vocabulary
What is the divisor?
the number that you are dividing by
723 / 4
180 r 3
There are 1,432 dancers registered for a dance competition. The dancers will be split into 8 different groups that will start at different times. How many dancers are in each group if they are equal groups?
179
Fifth grade is taking a field trip and 167 students are going. All of the students will be riding in the rental vans. 7 students can ride in the rental van. The teachers say they will need 23 vans to transport all of the students to the trip. Are they correct?
No, they are not correct. They will need one more van.
the number left over when creating equal groups
612 / 9
68 r 0
Paula bought 81 tomato plants to plant on her farm. Yesterday, her sister Li planted the same number of plants on her 3 small farms. How many tomato plants did Li plant on each farm?
27
Barbra made 98 biscuits. She needs to place the biscuits in a number of boxes. If each box can hold a maximum of 5 biscuits, how many boxes will she need?
She will need 20 boxes.
What is the dividend?
the number you are dividing/splitting up
4,216 / 5
843 r 1
A bulldozer uses 144 gallons of diesel over a 3 day period to clear up a demolished building. How many gallons of diesel was used up on an average in one day?
48 gallons
A group of 82 students plan to go on a field trip. If they hire cars that only hold 8 people, how many cars will they need to hire?
What is the quotient?
the answer to a division problem
7,028 / 8
833 r 4
There are 1,925 cupcakes for 8 classes to split evenly. How many cupcakes will each class get for their parties?
240 and there will be 5 left over
A baker baked 5,623 pies. He wants to put them all into boxes that hold 9 pies each. How many boxes is he going to need to hold all of the pies?
625