Equations
90 ÷ 9 = ?
10
Trey read 60 books over the summer. If he read the same number of books over the 3 months in summer, how many books did Trey read each month?
20 books each month
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Division is repeated what?
subtraction!
Ms. Westmoreland wants to make cookies for her sons while they're home! She has enough dough to make 64 cookies, and she can only fit 8 cookies on each cookie sheet to bake. If she wants to make all the cookies, how many cookie sheets will she need?
8 cookie sheets
4 times as many as 34 equals what?
4 x 34 = 136
240 ÷ 6 = ?
40
All 6 of the 4th grade classes collected 360 cans of food altogether for our annual food drive. They all collected the same number of cans. How many cans of food did each class collect?
Each class collected 60 cans of food.
What is the quotient?
The quotient is the answer to a division problem.
The 4th and 5th grade classes decided to go on a joint field trip. The 4th grade has 154 students and the 5th grade has 140 students, and there are 6 teachers total. If the grades need 6 buses and the same number of people are on each bus, how many people does each bus hold?
154 + 140 = 294 students + 6 teachers = 300 people
300 divided by 6 buses = 50 people
There are 5 dozen boys that are in the 1st grade. There are half as many girls in the 1st grade. How many girls are in the 1st grade?
5 dozen = 4 x 12 = 60 boys
60 divided 2 = 30 girls
There are 30 girls in the first grade.
6300 ÷ 70 = ?
90
There are 960 animals total at the Pittsburgh Zoo. But the zoo has to close down due to funding! The animals will be split and transferred between 8 other zoos across the country. If the same number go to each zoo, how many animals will each zoo receive?
120 animals go to each zoo
What is the dividend?
The number in a division problem we start with and are breaking apart.
Ms. Jordan collected a total of $110 from her class for an activity. If Ms. Jordan donated $10, and each student donated $5, how many students are in Ms. Jordan's class?
20 students are in Ms. Jordan's class.
$110 - $10 =$100
$100 / $5 = 20 students
In North Dakota, it has snowed 270 inches in the last 9 years. If each year it snowed the same amount, how many inches of snow fell each year?
30 inches of snow
1320 ÷ ? = 120
11
The Warner family is having a cookie baking contest. There are 9 different members of the Warner family. The directions for the contest say that everyone must bake the same amount of cookies. If the family baked a total of 540 cookies, how many cookies did each member bake?
60 cookies
What is the divisor?
The divisor is the number in a division equation we are dividing by.
A hair salon has a collection of 250 beads to use in girls' hair in one day. Each girl had 15 beads put in her hair, and there were 100 beads left over. How many girls put beads in their hair?
10 girls
250 - 100 = 150
150 / 15 = 10
4 x 198 = ?
792
7200 ÷ ? = 90
80
The fourth grade team wanted to buy prizes for each of their classes to share with students. Each teacher wants 120 prizes and there are 6 teachers on the team. If each bag has 10 prizes in them, how many bags should the teachers buy?
The teachers should buy 72 bags.
What is the order of the vocab terms in a division equation?
dividend / divisor = quotient
Kianna likes to take photos of her dog Luca every day. She took 142 photos during the week (5 days) and 68 photos over the weekend (2 days). About how many photos did she take each day?
142 + 68 = 210 photos divided by 7 = 30 photos a day
At Snowfall Elementary School, there are a total of 25 classes. 12 of the classes have 22 students. 13 of the classes have 18 students. How many total students attend Snowfall Elementary?
(12 x 22) + (13 x 18) = 264 + 234 = 498 students