Find The Reciprocal
The number in a division problem that you are splitting up (the first term in the division problem)
What is the Dividend?
A chef had 7 potatoes. How many bowls of mashed potatoes could he make if each bowl used one-fifth of a potato?
What is 35 bowls?
Find the reciprocal of 8
What is 1/8?
The number that tells you how many parts to divide a number into (the second term in a division problem)
What is the Divisor?
A container of 7 metal beams weighed one-sixth of a ton. If every beam weighed the same amount, how heavy was each?
What is 1/42 tons?
Find the reciprocal of 2/6
What is 3?
A bulldozer could carry one-eighth of a ton of sand. If a park needed 3 tons of sand, how many loads would the bulldozer need to carry?
What is 24 loads?
Find the reciprocal of 4/16
What is 4?
4 ÷ 2/6
What is 12?
4/8 ÷ 6
What is 1/12?
Damien ran 3/4 of a mile. Each lap around the track is 1/8 of a mile.
How many laps did Damien run?
Damien ran 6 laps
Find the reciprocal of 3/15
What is 5?
In the expression below, what do we call the numbers being divided?
18/3
What is the dividend?
7 ÷ 7/8
What is 8?
2/9 ÷ 2
What is 1/19?
Hector has 5/6 of a bag of trail mix. He gives Justice 1/3 of the bag each time he fills a snack container.
How many full containers can Hector give Justice?
What is 2 1/2 containers?