Vocabulary
What is the divisor ?
the number doing the dividing or the number dividing the dividend.
6300÷9
What is 700?
Sydnee has 60 cookies. She wants to give an equal amount to 8 of her friends. She will give her leftover cookies to her big brother Kris. How many cookies will Sydnee give to Kris?
4 cookies.
How can you check to see if your quotient is correct.
Multiply the quotient by the divisor. Your answer should be the dividend
3,200÷4
What is 800
Alana is giving tours at a local museum. She can only take 9 people on a tour. 87 people have shown up for a tour today. How many tour groups will Alana have today?
10 tour groups
What does it mean to divide?
To share; to separate into smaller groups
4,800÷62
What is 77 R26
John has a board that is 60 inches long. He wants to cut 8 shelves of equal length from the board and will discard the left over inches. How long will each shelf be?
7 inches long
What is the dividend?
What is the number to be divided by another number.
120÷40
What is 3?
Ursula bought 9 dozen donuts for the 4th grade students. The donuts were divided equally into 4 boxes. How many donuts were in each box?
What is 27 donuts?
Callie has 634 beads. She wants to make a 28 identical bracelets and use as many beads as possible on each bracelet. How many beads will be on each bracelet?
22 beads
What is a quotient?
the answer to a division problem
3,525÷50
What is 70 R25?
Reggie has 287 photographs of cats. He wants to put the photos into 2 groups of the same size, how many photos will be in each group?
What is 143 R1?
Mrs. Mass has 448 pairs of shoes. She wants to put her shoes into 14 equal groups. How many shoes are in each group?
What is 32 pairs?
Sean has 2,732 Star Wars figures to give away. 16 people would like them. He gives each person an equal number, how many are left over?
12 figures