What does it mean?
Extra Groups?
Multiply or Divide
What do I do with this remainder?
What are splitting into?
100
A restaurant needs to buy 720 new plates. Plates come in boxes of 6. How many boxes of plates do they need to buy? The answer is 120. What does the answer mean?
How many boxes of plates they need to buy.
100
340 students are going on a field trip, 55 students will fit on a bus. How many buses will they need to take? 8 remainder 10 Do I need to create an extra group for the remainder?
8 remainder 10 You need 9 buses. 10 is the number of students leftover and you can't leave them at school!
100
A bakery sells cupcakes for $1.25. You need 30 cupcakes for a party, how much money will you spend? Multiply or Divide?
Multiply because you are putting together equal groups 30 x $1.25
100
Splitting students onto buses
Create an extra group
100
A container can hold 25 orange candies. The company makes 1,750 orange candies a day. How many containers will they need? What are you splitting?
1,750 orange candies into 25 containers
200
You have $665 dollars that you want to spend on video games. Video games cost $20 each. How many video games can you buy? Answer 33 r 5. What does it mean?
33 is how many video games you can buy. 5 is how many dollars you will have leftover.
200
A box of cupcakes costs $5.00. How many boxes of cupcakes can you buy with $124.00? Answer 24 r 4 Do I need to create an extra group with the remainder?
24 is how many boxes of cupcakes you can buy. You will have $4.00 leftover, but you don't need it because you can't buy another box.
200
Maria has 300 yards of fabric to design dresses. Each dress will use 15 yards of fabric. How many dresses can she make? Multiply or Divide?
Divide because you are splitting the fabric up to make the dresses.
200
Using wood for a project
Leave it, you can't build extra
200
550 5th graders are going on a field trip. 35 students can fit on each bus. How many buses do the 5th graders need to take?
Splitting 550 5th graders into 35 buses.
300
Henry was trying to beat his old score of 173 points on a video game. If he scores 12 points per round, how many rounds would he need to play to beat his old score? The answer is 15 r 3 What does it mean?
15 is how many rounds he needs to play. But he still has 3 points left that he needs to get to 173. So he needs to play an extra round.
300
The librarian had 550 books. 75 will fit on a shelf. How many shelves will she need to fit all of the books? 7 r 25 Do you need to create an extra group with the leftovers?
Yes. She will need 8 shelves because they will fit on 7 shelves, but with 25 leftover and she needs to fit those books too!
300
A builder needs to buy 890 tiles for a roof. These tiles come in packages of 30. How many packages do you need to buy? multiply or divide?
Divide because the tiles are split into packages of 30.
300
Money used to buy cupcakes
Leave it, you can't buy extra
300
Jorge makes 3,450 a month. If he worked 20 days that month, how much money did he make a day? What are you splitting?
3,450 dollars split into 20 days.
400
Cody's dad bought 314 meters of string for a project. He needs pieces that are 7 meters long. How many pieces of string can he cut? The answer is 44 r 6. What does it mean?
He can cut 44 pieces. There will be 6 meters of string leftover.
400
Sara has 172 songs on her ipod and she wants to put them all on playlists. She can put 20 songs on a playlist. How many playlists will she need to create? 8 r 12 Do you need to create an extra group with the remainder?
8 r 12. Yes, she will need 9 playlists. There are 12 leftover and you need to fit those songs on a playlist.
400
Each batch of juice requires 75 ounces of mango juice. To make 12 batches of juice, how many ounces of mango juice will she need? multiply or divide?
Multiply because she is putting together equal groups of juice in 6 batches
400
splitting chairs into rows
Create an extra group! You need an extra row to use all the chairs!
400
A clown needed 550 balloons to make balloon animals. Balloons come in packs of 75. How many packs of balloons does he need to buy. What are they splitting?
They are splitting 550 balloons into packs of 75
500
The cafeteria has 350 cookies to share with a 5th grade class. There are 30 students in a class. How many cookies will each student get? Answer 11 r 20 What does it mean?
Each student will get 11 cookies and there will be 20 leftover.
500
At the carnival 3 friends bought 530 tickets. If they split the tickets evenly, how many tickets will each friend get? 176 r 2 Do you need to create an extra group with the remainders?
176 r 2 . Each friend will get 176 tickets and there will be 2 leftover. You do not need to create an extra group, these are just leftover tickets.
500
Isabel is making bead necklaces. She has 900 beads. If she uses 250 beads for each necklace, how many necklaces can she make?
Divide because she is splitting the total number of beads into necklaces.
500
Putting books on shelves
Create an extra group. You need an extra shelf to fit all the books.
500
A machine in the crayon factory can produce 3,450 crayons a day. The machine works for 12 hours a day. How many crayons are produced in one hour? what are you splitting?
3,450 crayons into 12 hours.
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