Vocabulary
What is the answer to a division problem called?
Quotient
8 x 725
5,800
578 ÷ 5
115 R 3
Lilly is adopting 3 cats. She wants to buy each of them 15 pounds of food. How much total food will Lilly have?Would we multiply or divide?
Multiply
3 x 15 = 45 pounds of food
Lauren has $15 to spend on notebooks. Each notebook is $7. How many notebooks can she buy?
2 notebooks, Remainder $1
Ignore the remainder, she'd only have $1 left over.
What is the answer to a multiplication problem called?
Product
12 x 349
4,188
2598 ÷ 23
112 R 22
Brantley has 697 oreo brownies. He's sharing them with the entire class and wants to give everyone an equal amount. Would we multiply or divide?
697 / 18 = 38 R13
Divide
Kirby is writing an 80 page book. He's using some really fancy paper that only comes in packs of 7 sheets. How many packages does Kirby need to buy? How do you use the remainder?
80 / 7 = 11 R3
Add one, he needs 12 total packs of paper.
What is a divisor?
The number that we're dividing by
35 x 918
32,130
5213 ÷ 34
153 R 11
Bailey is making her annual turkey cookies and decided to make enough for the entire elementary school. If she makes fifty cookies for each grade level (PK-6), how many cookies will she make in total?
50 x 8 = 400 cookies
Joyce is baking a pie. She went apple picking and has 65 apples. If she uses an equal amount of apples for each pie and makes 6 pies, how many apples will she have left over?
What will we do with the remainder?
10 apples for each pie with 5 apples left over.
Use the remainder
What is a dividend?
The number that's being divided
264 x 86
22,704
6354 ÷ 87
73 R 3
Conner and Hunter are going fishing. They brought 892 worms with them. They plan to use 5 worms for each fish they catch. How many fish are they able to catch?
892 / 5 = 178 R2
Meghan has a bookcase with 8 shelves at home. If she wants to put the same amount of books on each shelf and she has 90 books, how many books will not fit on the bookcase?
What do we do with the remainder?
90 / 8 = 11R2
Use the remainder, there are 2 books left over.
What part of a division problem doesn't change as we solve it? (Divisor, dividend, or quotient?)
Divisor
534 x 86
45,924
9868 ÷ 96
102 R 76
Shay made fruit punch for the Halloween party. She used 4 bottles of juice, with 16 fl oz in each bottle. She wants to split the total amount of juice equally between 18 cups. How many fl oz of fruit punch will each person in her class get?
multiply and divide
4 x 16 = 64
64 / 18 = 3 oz each with 10 left over
There are 88 kids who want to join swim club. How many teams of 6 can be made?
What do we do with the remainder?
88 / 6 = 14 R4
14 Teams, ignore the remainder