Division Vocabulary
The answer to a division problem.
Quotient
40 / 8
5
546 / 3
182
372 x 6
2,232
Billy’s mother had five children. The first was named Lala, the second was named Lele, the third was named Lili, the fourth was named Lolo. What was the fifth child named?
Billy
A repetitive strategy to solve a division problem.
Repeated subtraction
32 / 4
8
905 / 2
452 R 1
972 / 8
121 R 4
You can find it in Mercury, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, but not in Venus or Neptune. What is it?
The letter "R"
Another way to describe division. This word often appears in word problems.
Sharing
48 / 6
8
813 / 6
135 R 3
593 x 8
4,744
What’s full of holes but can still hold water?
A sponge
This is the fancy word for the number that is inside the long division house.
Dividend
35 / 7
5
409 / 9
45 R 4
3,524 / 2
1,762
A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed in town for three days and rode back out on Friday. How is this possible?
The horse's name is Friday.
This is the fancy word for the number that goes outside of the house in a long division problem.
Divisor
132 / 11
12
659 / 7
94 R 1
6,423 x 5
32,115
What travels faster: heat or cold?
Heat travels faster because you can catch a cold!