Division Vocabulary
This number is what we divide by or how many groups will be divided into during the problem.
What is the divisor?
The Bluegrass Runners group runs a total of 240 miles each week. The members of the group run 6 days per week. How many miles do the members run each day?
What is 40 miles each day?
Marcel needs to solve the following division problem: 572 divided by 7. His answer is 36.
Estimate the Quotient, and then state if his answer is reasonable or not.
About 80. His answer is not reasonable.
In "Does Mcdonalds Sell Cheese Burgers Raw" Acronym, what does the S and C stand for?
Subtract then Check
The Biking Club rode 2,256 miles total during the month of October. That is 3 times as many miles as they rode in September. How many miles did they ride in September?
What is 752 miles. (Watch for extra information in word problems!)
A group of 4th grade students at PS/IS 49 planned a recycling drive. During the week, they collected an average of 1,535 bottles each day. How many water bottles did the fourth graders collect for the entire week?
Hint: 1 week = 7 days
10,745 bottles
Maya and her 4 friends divided 1,025 stickers equally. About how many stickers did each girl receive?
About 200
This is the larger number in a division problem that is being split into equal groups.
What is the dividend?
Melissa purchased a new computer for her home. The computer cost $3,395. She would like to make 5 equal payments to pay off the computer. How much will each payment be?
What is $679.
The ticket sales for a new movie were $269,368 on Friday night and $436,249 on Saturday night. How many more tickets did they sell on Saturday night than on Friday night?
$166,881
There were 3,220 four-legged animals at the zoo. How many legs were there altogether?
What is 12,880 legs.
The answer to a division problem is called the _________.
What is the quotient?
Marty put 62 brownies on 5 plates. She put the same number of brownies on each plate. How many brownies will there be on each plate? Will there be any leftover? (Hint: Answer both questions)
What is 12 brownies on each plate. Yes there will be 2 brownies left over.
List the first 4 multiples of 7:
7, 14, 21, 28
A lunch at Qdoba costs $8. What will be the cost of a lunch for 2,391 teachers?
What is $19,128.
All of these are division clue words in word problems EXCEPT: A. Equally B. Times C. Quotient D. Divided By
What is Times?
5th grade is going on a field trip to Louisville, Kentucky. There are 139 boys going and 84 girls going. There needs to be a chaperone for each group of 6 children. How many chaperones will need to go on the field trip so that ever student is in a group?
What is 38 chaperones. (The answer is 37 Remainder 1, 1 student can't be left alone, therefore they will need 38 chaperones).
Part A: Clara is preparing candy bags to be sold at a school fundraiser. She bought 3 party-size boxes of candy. Each box has 1,298 pieces of candy.
What is the total number of candies Clara has?
Answer:____________________
Part B: Clara then places the candies into bags of 7 and gave the remaining candies to Ms. Ortoli. How many candies did Ms. Ortoli get?
Answer ___________________
Part A: 3,894 pieces of candy
Part B: Ms. Ortoli gets the 2 leftover pieces of candy.
Melanie solved the following division problem: 276 divided by 3. She got the quotient 34 Remainder 4. Was Melanie correct? Show your work!
What is NO, Melanie was incorrect. Answer: 92
Use the digits 1, 2, 3, and 4 to create a division problem with a one-digit divisor that will give you the GREATEST quotient.
What is 432 divided by 1?