Division Vocabulary
Mental Division
Word Problems
Divide!
Interpret Remainder-Read These Carefully!!
100
Finding a number that is close to the exact amount.
What is estimating?
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 (need to add one more van for the remainder of 5 people that still need a van)

200

The number being divided in a division problem.

What is the dividend?

200
1,543/4
What is 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

52,456/21

2,497 R19

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 full pieces (remainder of 2 does not equal a full piece)

300
The amount left over when a number cannot be divided evenly.
What is the remainder?
300
545/8=
What is 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

521/4 

130 R1

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 will need to sit out (remainder 3=3 players do not have a team to play on)

400
A number that is evenly divisible has no ___________.
What is remainder?
400
721/3
What is 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

834/3

278

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 number doing the dividing in a division problem.

What is the divisor?

500
900/10=
What is 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

344/7

49 R1

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 (need to add one more table because of the remainder)

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