Estimating
Estimate the quotient:
1,512 ÷ 5 =
about 300
Sarah is planting tomatoes. She can put a maximum of 6 tomato plants in each row. How many rows will she need to plant 60 tomato plants?
She will need 10 rows.
Use partial quotients to find 85 ÷ 5.
The partial quotients are 10 and 7. The quotient is 17.
49 ÷ 8 =
6 R1
27 ÷ 6 =
4 R 3
Estimate the quotient:
2,467 ÷ 5 =
about 500
Jake is putting 51 bananas in bags. Each bag holds 7 apples. How many FULL bags of apples will there be? How many apples will NOT be in a bag?
7 full bags of bananas
2 bananas will not be in a bag.
Use partial quotients to find 96÷6.
The partial quotients are 10 and 6. The quotient is 16.
57 ÷ 9 =
6 R 3
63 ÷ 6 =
10 R 3
Estimate the quotient:
3,021 ÷ 3 =
about 1,000
The 4th grade class is going on a field trip. There are 94 students total in the class. Each bus holds 20 students. How many buses will they need to transport the students?
They will need 5 buses.
How many 5s are in 1,000?
200
99 ÷ 3 =
33
834 ÷ 6 =
139
Estimate the quotient:
4,220 ÷ 6 =
about 700
Abby is making cookies for her friends. There are 12 cookies in each batch. She makes 3 batches. She has 32 friends total. If she gives each friend the same number of cookies, how many will each friend get? How many will be leftover?
Each friend gets 3 cookies.
There will be 4 cookies left.
How many 5s are in 478? Include remainders in your answer!
95 with a remainder of 3.
111 ÷ 10 =
11 R 1
2,417 ÷ 8 =
302 R 1
Estimate the quotient:
12,302 ÷ 3 =
about 4,000
Sam's mom asks him to arrange the towels in stacks of 8. If Sam has 66 towels total, how many stacks will he have? How many towels will be leftover?
He will have 8 stacks.
He will have 2 towels leftover.
How many 5s are in 737? Use partial products. Your answer should have TWO parts, plus a remainder.
There are 140 5s in 700.
There are 7 5s in 37.
There is a remainder of 2.
238 ÷ 9 =
26 R 4
4,914 ÷ 7 =
702