Equations
91 ÷ 7 = ?
13
Trey read 54 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?
18 books each month
*Did you remember your units?*
What is the quotient?
The quotient is the answer to a division problem.
Ms. Westmoreland wants to make cookies for her sons while they're home! She has enough dough to make 68 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?
9 cookie sheets
68 divided by 8 is 8 remainder 4, but because those cookies need to be made, we have to round up the number of cookie sheets!
4 times as many as 34 equals what?
4 x 34 = 136
73 ÷ 6 = ?
12 R 1
All 6 of the 4th grade classes collected 252 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 42 cans of food.
What is a remainder?
It is the number left over.
The 4th and 5th grade classes decided to go on a joint field trip. The 4th grade has 155 students and the 5th grade has 140 students, and there are 11 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?
155 + 140 = 295 students + 11 teachers = 306 people
306 divided by 6 buses = 51 people
There are 4 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?
4 dozen = 4 x 12 = 48 boys
48 divided 2 = 24 girls
There are 24 girls in the first grade.
256 ÷ 2 = ?
128
There are 696 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?
87 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 $213 from her class for an activity. If Ms. Jordan donated $10, and each student donated $7, how many students are in Ms. Jordan's class?
29 students are in Ms. Jordan's class.
In North Dakota, it has snowed 252 inches in the last 9 years. If each year it snowed the same amount, how many inches of snow fell each year?
28 inches of snow
984 ÷ 5 = ?
196 r 4
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 471 cookies, how many extra cookies were baked?
There were 3 extra cookies!
*Interpret that remainder!
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 12 girls that came in one day. How many beads does the hair salon have left after one day?
70 beads are leftover.
4 x 198 = ?
792
847 ÷ 9 = ?
94 r 1
The fourth grade team wanted to buy prizes for each of their classes to share with students. Each teacher wants 115 prizes and there are 6 teachers on the team. If each bag has 9 prizes in them, how many bags should the teachers buy?
The teachers should buy 77 bags.
*We need to round up the number of bags based on the remainder!
What are two strategies we have been using to divide whole numbers?
1. Base ten blocks
2. Box Method
Kianna likes to take photos of her dog Lucca every day. She took 109 photos last week and 68 photos over the weekend. About how many photos did she take each day?
114 + 68 = 182 photos divided by 7 = 26 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