Division Vocabulary
Mental Division
Word Problems
Divide!
Multiply
100
Finding a number that is close to the exact amount.
What is estimating?
100

36/4

9

100

Jane drove 50 miles each hour for 5 hours. What is the the total distance she drove in 5 hours.

250 miles

100

75/15

5

100

5 × 25

125

200

Divisor

The number you are dividing by

200

1,500/3

What is 500?

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

128 ÷ 8

 16

200

3 × 80

240

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

246/2

What is 123?

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

91 ÷ 7

13

300

4 × 83

332

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

800/40

What is 20

400

Lexie’s spent 2 hours gathering all of her watercolor paintings. She thought of placing an equal number of paintings in four of the rooms in the house. If Lexie has 32 watercolor paintings, how many paintings will be placed in each of the four rooms?

8

400

72 ÷ 4

18

400

6 × 97

582

500
Dividing where multiples of the divisor are subtracted from the dividend and then the quotients are added together.
What is partial quotient?
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

721 ÷ 7

103

500

575 × 50

28750

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