Mental Division
Word Problems
Divide with/out remainder
Interpret
100
35/4
9
100
Jane drove 49 miles each hour for 5 hours. What is the best estimate of the total distance she drove in 5 hours.
250 miles
100

851/2

425 R1

100

Mr. Lager has a huge family. They are going on camping trip! He has 323 total people going. If each van holds 6 people, how many vans does he need to rent.

54 vans

200

1,543/4

300

200
The pet store had 4 rows of cages for dogs with 9 cages in each row. When I went to the pet store there were only 5 empty cages. How many cages had dogs in them?
31 cages
200

521/4 

13 R 1

200

Shelby and Ellie is cutting ribbon into 4 foot pieces for a craft project. How many full pieces can she cut from the 54 foot roll?

13 pieces

300

545/8=

70

300
Noah packed $10 in his wallet for the movies. The movie was $5.25. He also bought a candy bar for $1.75. How much money did he have left?
$3
300

834/3

278

300

There are 453 people that tried out for the football team. The coach separated them into teams of 9. How many football players will have to sit out?

3 players

400

721/3

200

400
Caprice packed 3 boxes. The least number of toys she put in each box was 18 and the greatest was 22. What is a reasonable estimate of toys Caprice packed.
60
400

344/7

49 R 1

400

Tina, Kari and Katie won $321 dollars. If they want to split the money evenly, how much money would each person get?

$16.50

500

900/10=

90

500
Mrs Eckhoff is displaying art projects in the hall. There are 25 art projects. She wants to hang the projects so the same number of projects are hanging across as down. How many are in one row?
5
500

52,456/21

2493 R2

500

The girl scouts are trying organize tables for the art projects. They have 45 tables in storage. Each table can display 3 art projects. If there are 83 art projects that need to go on display, how many tables should the pull out of the storage?

28 tables

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