Division Vocabulary
Finding a number that is close to the exact amount.
What is estimating?
72/8
What is 9
Randy has 128 ounces of dry dog food. He feeds his dog 8 ounces of food every day. How many days will the dog food last?
What is 16 days?
Noah packed $10 in his wallet for the movies. The movie cost $5.75, and he bought a candy bar for $1.75. How much money was left?
What is $2.50.
Mr. Lager has a huge extended 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.
What is 41 vans?
Answer in a division problem.
What is a quotient?
1,000/10
What is 100?
There are 144 pages in a box. Joe reads 16 pages each night. What is the total number of nights it will take Joe to read the entire book?
What is 9 nights?
On a new softball team each of the 12 players must pay an entry fee of $75 to join the team. How much money did all the players spend?
What is $900?
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?
What is 13 pieces?
The amount left over when a number cannot be divided evenly.
What is the remainder?
132/11=
What is 12?
A school raised $1,648 to purchase new books. The money raised will be shared equally among 8 classrooms. What is the total amount of money each classroom will receive?
What is $206?
There are 35 boxes of markers in a supply closet. Each box has 126 makers in it. How many total markers are in the supply closet?
What is 4,410 markers?
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?
What is 3 football players?
The answer is a division problem ___________.
What is a quotient?
D / 7 = 9
D = ?
What is 63?
Jean's family is planning a cross country road trip. The total trip is 2,754 miles and they travel for 9 days. If they travel an equal number of miles every day, how far will they travel each day?
What is the value of the expression 3,972 / 12?
What is 331?
Marcia has 412 flowers for centerpieces. If each centerpiece has 8 flowers in it, how many centerpieces did she make?
What is 51 centerpieces?
What is the number you are dividing called?
What is a dividend?
210/7=
What is 30?
The owner of a new store is printing 7,520 coupons. The coupons will be sent to 32 locations. Each location will receive the same number of coupons. What is the total number of coupons each location will receive?
What is 235?
What is 197 boxes?
Warren spent 140 hours making 16 toy trucks for a fair. If he spent the same amount of time making each truck, how many hours did he spend making each truck? (Must simplify your answer - hint find common factors!)
What is 8 3/4 hours?