Vocabulary
What is a product?
Answer to a multiplication problem
What fraction of 9 is 3?
1/3
2/3 Divided By 1/4
8/3
How many 2/5ths are in 1 1/2?
3 tickets to the museum cost $12.75. At this rate what is the cost of 1 ticket? 5 tickets?
1 ticket - $4.25
5 tickets - $21.25
What is a quotient?
Answer to a division problem.
Priya ran 1 1/2 miles today, and Tyler ran 3 3/4 miles. How many times the length of Priya's run was Tyler's run?
5/2 times as far
10/3 Divided By 2/6
60/6
An aquarium has a length of 7/2 feet, a width of 4/3 feet and a height of 3/2 feet. What is the volume of the aquarium?
7 cubic feet
A group of friends are sharing 2 1/2 pounds of berries. If each friend recieved 5/4 of a pound of berries. How many friends are sharing berries?
2 friends
2 1/2 divided by 5/4 = 2
Divisor
The number by which another number is divided.
Diego has run 3 1/3 km, which was 5/6 the distance in a race. How long is the whole race?
4 KM
3 1/3 divided by 5/6
5/6 Divided by 7/12
60/42
Lin has a pan with an area of 11 1/4 square inches. The length of the pan is 4 1/2 inches. What is the width of the pan?
2 1/2 inches
3 cm
One half of the base if 2 5/8 cm time the height of 7 7/8 cm. So the height is 7 7/8 divided by 2 5/8.
Dividend
The number being divided into equal groups.
A bucket containing 11 2/3 gallons of water is 5/6 full. How many gallons of water would be in a full bucket?
14 gallons
11 2/3 divided by 5/6
2 3/4 Divided By 4/3
33/16
A box has a width of 2 2/3 inches, a length of 3 1/3 inches, and a height of 3 1/3 inches.
How many 1/3 inch cubes does it take to fill the box?
560
8 cubes along width, 10 along length, 7 vertically
A rancher is ordering a box of cube-shaped salt licks. The edge lengths of each salt lick are 5/12 foot. Is the volume of one salt lick greater or less than 1 cubic foot? Explain
Less than 1 cubic foot.
A cube with edge lengths of 1 foot has volume of 1 cubic food. Salt-lick edge lengths are less that 1 foot, so volume will be less than 1 cubic foot.
Multiplicative Reasoning
There are 80 kids in a gym. 75% are wearing socks. How many are not wearing socks?
20
25% not, same as 1/4, 1/4 of 80 is 20
4 divided by 3/4
5 1/3
Lin has a pan that has a length of 8/3 inches, and a height of 3/2 inches. What is the volume?
15 cubic inches
A school sold 300 shirts. 31% to 5th graders, 52% to 6th graders and the rest sold to teachers. How many shirts were sold to each group?
5th - 93 (0.31 * 300 = 93)
6th - 156 (0.56*300 - 156)
Teachers - 51 (300-93-156=51)