Word Problems
Hamilton is having a party. He has 16 cups. He puts them into 2 equal stacks. How many cups are in each stack?
8 cups
21 divided by 3
7
divide
At Lauren's school party, the children get into teams of 5 to play a game. If there are 15 boys and 20 girls, how many teams are there?
7 teams
August puts 20 pieces of construction paper and 20 glue sticks on 4 tables. If he places the same number on each table, how many hats and balloons did he put on each table?
5 hats and 5 balloons
The librarians were straightening the class library. There are 24 books in 4 equal stacks. How many books are in each stack?
6 books
100 divided by 0
0
Answer to a division problem
quotient
Jackson had 25 photos and Alex had 15 photos. They combined their pictures into an album. The album had 8 pages. How many photos were placed in each page?
5 photos
Camilla and Paisley both collected scratch and sniff stickers. They had a total of 20. Camilla says that they can put an equal amount of stickers on each of 5 pages of their album. Paisley says that they can put an equal amount of stickers on 4 pages.
Who is correct?
They both are
There are 16 matching socks, how many pairs can be made?
8 pairs
5 = 50 divided by
10
The number that divides the dividend
divisor
The Gator Store is selling balls and they have 18 red beach balls and 17 green beach. How many boxes will they need?
7 boxes
There were 20 plants sold at store on Saturday, and 30 plants on Sunday. Customers bought 5 plants each. How many customers, in all, bought the plants?
10 customer
Draw an array. How many rows of 3 are in 18?
6 rows
64 divided by 8 is
8
A set of related multiplication and division equations.
related facts or fact families
Drake collected 4 mini Sqishmallows each day. He collected 32 in all. For how many days did Drake collect Squishmallows?
8 days
Lucca goes for a walk his dog 15 times in 5 days. He walked the same number of times each day. How many times a day did he walk his dog?
3 times
Write 4 equations for this fact family:
3, 5, 15
3 x 5 = 15
5 x 3 = 15
15/5 = 3
15/3= 5
56 = 7 x ____
8
The number that is to be divided in a division problem.
dividend
Will went to the Hometown Fair. He went on the same ride 6 times and used the same number of tickets each time. He used 18 tickets total. How many tickets did he use for each ride?
3 tickets each
Write a word problem that can be solved using
35 divided by 7. Then solve your problem.
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