Vocabulary
The amount leftover after dividing.
Remainder
2742 ÷ 6
457
An elephant in a zoo eats 12 kilograms of food each day. He eats 4 equal sized meals each day. How many grams of food are in each meal?
3,000 grams
294 ÷ 42
7
A roller coaster seats 24 people. There are 483 people in line. How many times does the ride run full?
23 times
Operations that "undo" each other, such as addition and subtraction, or multiplication and division.
Inverse Operations
4800 ÷ 6
800
You babysit for 5 days and earn a total of $450. How much money do you earn each day?
$80
580 ÷ 30
19 R 10
A section of someones square lawn was damaged by a pool. The area of the damage was 1,500 square feet. The section was 75 feet long. How wide was the section?
20 feet
The answer to a division problem.
Quotient
3786 ÷ 6
631
A bride invites 240 people to their wedding. 8 people sit at each table. How many tables are there?
30
612 ÷ 18
34
A librarian has 1,048 books to shelve. Each shelf can hold 32 books. The librarian fills each shelf before moving to another shelf. How many books are on the last shelf?
24 books
The number shows how many equal parts to divide.
Divisor
59,690 ÷ 4
14,922.5
A class makes paper snowflakes. Each snowflake requires 6 sheets of paper. The class makes as many snowflakes as possible with 550 sheets of paper. How many more sheets of paper does the class need to make one more snowflake?
2 sheets
1148 ÷ 28
41
There is a total of 4,752 passengers on 3 subway trains. Each subway train has 8 cars. The number of passengers in each car is the same. How many passengers are in each car?
198 passengers
The number being divided.
Dividend
65,906 ÷ 4
16,476.5
An art club wraps boxes for a fundraiser. Each box requires 3 sheets of paper. The club wraps as many boxes as possible with 458 sheets of paper. How many sheets of paper does the class need to wrap one more box?
1 more sheets of paper
1596 ÷ 13
122 R 10
A teacher receives 990 new notebooks. She donates half of the notebooks to a different school. She divides the rest of the notebooks into 16 equal groups for each class. How many notebooks are left over?
15 notebooks