Division Vocabulary
The answer to a division problem
What is quotient?
600 ÷ 6
100
Jane drove 91 miles. If it took her 7 hours to drive that far, how many miles did she drive per hour?
13 miles per hour
851 ÷ 2
425 R1
Mr. Lager has a huge family. They are going on camping trip! He has 323 total people going. If each van holds 8 people, how many vans does he need to rent.
Numbers that are easy to compute mentally.
What are compatible numbers?
1,500 ÷ 30
What is 50?
88 ÷ 4 =
22
4,456 ÷ 5
891 R1
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 full pieces
The amount left over when a number cannot be divided evenly.
What is the remainder?
3,200 ÷ 8=
What is 400?
93 ÷ 4 =
23 R1
9,459 ÷ 9
1,051
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
The number that is being divided
What is dividend?
720,000 ÷ 90
What is 8,000
Caprice had made 65 cookies for a bake sale. She could only make 5 cookies at a time, how many batches did she have to make?
13 batches of cookies
Mr. J had to grade 2,855 papers during the course of 5 years as a teacher. On average, how many papers did he grade in one year?
571 papers
Tina, Kari and Katie won $321 dollars. If they want to split the money evenly, how much money would each person get?
$107
The number that divides the dividend
What is divisor?
5,400 ÷ 90=
What is 60?
Mrs. Steffen is displaying art projects in the hall. There are 76 art projects. She wants to hang the projects so the same number of projects are hanging in a row. She only has 4 rows to work with. How many are in one row?
19
A total of 480 students are going on a field trip to the zoo.
If there needs to be an adult for every 4 students, how many adults are needed?
120 adults
Mark gave 21 tadpoles to his three friends. Mark gave twice as many tadpoles to David as he did Chris. George received twice as many tadpoles as David. How many tadpoles did each friend receive?
3 to Chris
6 to David
12 to George