Division
Mental division
What to do with remainders?
estimation
Story problems
100
88 divided by 7
12 remainder 4
100
1802/3
600 R3
100
Answer and tell what you would do with the remainder. Kate baked 84 muffins. If each muffin tray held 9 muffins, how many trays did Kate use?
10 trays. The remainder made us round up
100
Use rounding and estimation to see if the answer makes sense. 92 R3 5/463
yes it makes sense 92 rounds down to 90. 90 X 5 =450 450 is close to 463
100
There were 825 students signed up to run in timed races. If exactly 6 students had to run in each race, how many races were there?
137 races
200
683/8
85 R3
200
1601/2
800 R1
200
Answer and tell what you would do with the remainder. There are 158 students in a school’s Swimming Club. How many relay teams of 6 can the students make?
26 teams You ignore the remainder
200
Use rounding and estimation to see if the answer makes sense. 79 R6 9/717
yes 79 rounds up to 80. 80 X 9 = 720 which is close to 717
200
The store manager ordered 46 boxes of rubber chickens. Each box contained 38 rubber chickens. How many rubber chickens did they have altogether?
1,748 rubber chickens
300
914/9
101 R5
300
643/8
80 R3
300
Answer and tell what to do with the remainder. Mrs. Jones orders pizzas for a class party. Each pizza will be cut into 8 slices. There will be 39 people at the party. How many pizzas should Mrs. Jones order so that each person can have one slice?
5 pizzas The remainder needed to rounded up in the answer.
300
Use rounding and estimation to see if the answer makes sense. 57 R3 7/628
No, 57 would round up to 60. 60 X 7 =420. 420 is not close to 628
300
Jacob made 127 selling his Pokemon cards to his friends. Ben made lemonade and made 86 dollars. They used all of their money to buy Beyblades. Each Bayblade cost 9 dollars. How many Beyblades could they buy? How much money would they have left over.
They can buy 23 Beyblades. They will have 8 dollars left over.
400
1,723/6
287 R1
400
4500/5
900
400
Answer and tell what to do with the remainder. A factory packed 850 Fidget Spinners into large boxes for delivery to a toy store. Each large box held 9 Fidget spinners. The remaining spinners were packed in a small box. How many spinners were packed in the small box?
4 spinners The remainder was the answer
400
Use rounding and estimation to see if the answer makes sense. 287 R1 6/1723
yes, 287 would round to 300. 300 X 6=1800 1800 is close to 1723
400
A team from each school had 250 foam balls and a bucket. The Countryside team dunked 6 fewer balls than the Marshall team. The Marshall team dunked all but 8 of their balls. How many balls did the two teams dunk in all?
478 balls
500
8,574/7
1,224 R6
500
2,803/7
400 R3
500
Dwight had 359 pennies. He divided them equally among himself and his three sisters. Dwight decided to keep all the leftover pennies for himself. How many pennies does Dwight end up with?
Dwight has 92 pennies. The remainder is added to the answer.
500
Fox party!!??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU0AtBzAlYY
500
A grocery company bought 943 bananas. They had to throw out 7 bananas because they were full of spiders! They then split the remaining equally between 6 of their grocery stores. How many bananas did each store get?
each store got 156 spider free bananas.
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