5.1 Investigate Remainders
Use counters to find the quotient and remainder. Write the remainder as a fraction.
10/3=
3 1/3
There are 35 students going to the zoo. Each van can hold 6 students. How many vans are needed?
6 vans
240/6=
40
Estimate quotients using Compatible numbers.
358/3=
120
What is the vocabulary word for the 3 in the problem below?
24/3=8
Divisor
Use counters to find the quotient and remainder. Write the remainder as a fraction.
28/5=
5 3/5
Myra has a 17-foot roll of crepe paper to make 8 streamers to decorate for a party. How long will each streamer be if she cuts the roll into equal pieces?
2 1/8 feet long
4800/6=
800
Use counters to find the quotient and remainder. Write the remainder as a fraction.
784/8=
100
What is the vocabulary word for the 8 in the problem below?
24/3=8
Quotient
Use counters to find the quotient and remainder. Write the remainder as a fraction.
25/3=
8 1/3
Ed carves 22 small wooden animals to sell at the craft fair. He displays them in rows with 4 animals in a row. How many animals will not be in equal rows?
2 animals
1200/4=
300
Use counters to find the quotient and remainder. Write the remainder as a fraction.
474/9=
50
What is the vocabulary word for the 24 in the problem below?
24/3=8
Dividend
Use counters to find the quotient and remainder. Write the remainder as a fraction.
27/6=
4 3/6
Hakeem has 100 tomato plants. He wants to plant them in rows of 8. How many full rows will he have?
12 full rows
360/6=
60
Use compatible numbers to find two estimates that the quotient is between.
2593/6=
400 and 500
What is a remainder?
A remainder is the number that is left over when you divide. It is what you can not put evenly into the divisor.
Taliya and 2 friends are playing a game of dominoes. There are 28 dominoes in the set. Taliya wants each player to receive the same number of dominoes. Can she divide them equally among the 3 players? Why or why not?
28/3=9 r1
Taliya can not divide them up equally because 28 is not divisible by 3. There will be a remainder!
3 students
At an assembly, 180 students sit in 9 equal rows. How many students sit in each row?
20 students
A grocery store sold 2,267 bananas in 7 days. About the same number of bananas were sold each day. About how many bananas did the store sell each day?
about 300 bananas
Divide using whatever strategy you want.
246/3=
82