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

35/4

9

200

1,543/4

What is 400?

300

545/8=

What is 70?

400

821/12

What is 70

500

992/18=

What is 50?

Word Problems

100

Jane drove 49 miles for 5 hours. What is the best estimate of how much she drove each hour?

10 miles

200

The pet store had 4 rows of cages for dogs with a total of 64 cages. How many cages were in each row?

16 cages

300

Noah packed $85 in his wallet for the movies to buy candy for his friends. He bought each friend candy and each thing he bought cost $5. How many things was he able to buy?

17 candies

400

Caprice has 432 purses she needs to pack up. She can put up to 12 purses in a box. How many boxes will she need to pack the purses?

36 boxes

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 projects

Divide!

100

851/2

425 r1

200

5,456/8

682

300

521/11

47 r4

400

8,234/16

514 r10

500

3,644/22

165 r14

Interpret Remainder

100

Mr. Lager has a huge family. They are going on camping trip! He has 62 total people going. If each van holds 6 people, how many vans does he need to rent.

11 vans

200

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

13 full 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 and her 3 friends won $320 dollars. If they want to split the money evenly, how much money would each person get?

$80

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