5th Grade Division

Division Vocabulary

100

Finding a number that is close to the exact amount.

What is estimating?

200

Numbers that are easy to compute.

What are compatible numbers?

300

The amount left over when a number cannot be divided evenly.

What is the remainder?

400

A number that is evenly divisible has no ___________.

What is remainder?

500

Dividing where multiples of the divisor are subtracted from the dividend and then the quotients are added together.

What is partial quotient?

Mental Division

100

36 / 4

9

200

1,600 / 4

400

300

560 / 8=

70

400

621 / 3

207

500

900 / 10=

90

Word Problems

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

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

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

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

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

Divide!

100

850 / 2

?

200

231 / 21

11

300

119 / 7 

17

400

286 / 13

22

500

238 / 7

34

Interpret Remainder

100

Mr. Lager has a huge family. They are going on camping trip! He has 53 total people going. If each van holds 6 people, how many vans does he need to rent.

9 vans

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

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

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

107

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