Vocabulary
When you are repeatedly subtracting or taking away. Or when you are breaking something up into groups.
Division
325 ÷ 13
25
An architect was building a hotel downtown. He bought 744 lamps to put in the rooms. If each room gets 12 lamps, how many rooms does the hotel have?
62 rooms
147 ÷ 13
11 r 4
Benjamin wants to split a collection of crayons into groups of 14. Benjamin has 518 crayons. How many groups will be created?
37 groups
What are the steps to division?
Divide, Multiply, Subtract, Bring Down, Repeat or Remainder
756 ÷ 21
36
There are 375 students going to a trivia competition. If each school van can hold 15 students, how many vans will they need?
25 vans
7,834 ÷ 22
356 r 2
Benjamin is inviting 79 friends to a party. He has 632 cookies. How many cookies will each friend get?
8 cookies
The number on the outside of the division equation. The number you are dividing by.
Divisor
3,084 ÷ 12
257
Michelle has 4,169 beads. She makes 11 bracelets with the beads. How many beads does each bracelet have?
379 beads
4,910 ÷ 15
327 r 5
Kathleen is inviting 58 friends to a party. She has 1160 cookies. How many cookies will each friend get?
20 cookies
The number on the inside of the division equation. The number being divided.
Dividend
1,700 ÷ 25
68
Cohen owns 256 marbles. He divides those marbles into 16 bags. How many bags of marbles does he have?
16 bags
1,725 ÷ 21
82 r 3
Carlos is inviting 97 friends to a party. He has 7372 cookies. How many cookies will each friend get?
76 cookies
Answer to a division problem
Quotient
448 ÷ 16
28
Oliver was reading through his favorite book. The book had 377 pages and it took Oliver 13 days to finish the book. How many pages did he read per day?
29 pages
5,598 ÷ 14
399 r 12
There are 97 students in the class and 8148 blocks. If the blocks are divided equally among the students, how many does each student get?
84 blocks