Vocabulary
What is the meaning of the word product?
An answer to a multiplication problem.
Create the expression for this sentence: 1/2 groups of 2
1.
What is the meaning to the word quotient?
An answer to a division problem.
4/5 x 6
4 4/5
What is a keyword often used in a word problem when you have to multiply only?
Of.
6/8 ÷ 2
3/8.
In a division word problem, the two numbers used to create your expression are the __________ and the ___________ you are dividing by.
Total and equal parts
Alex cuts a rope that is 10 ft long into two pieces of different lengths. The shorter piece is 3/5 of the total length. What is the length of the shorter piece?
The shorter piece is 6ft long.
Cassie goes to a store and buys 5 bags of skittles. Her friends come by to ask if she can share some of it. Cassie decides that each of her friends will get 1/3 bags of skittles. How many pieces of skittles will each friend get?
What is the keyword that proves we have to DIVIDE in this word problem?
The keyword each.
Roger makes 7 tacos. He has 1/3 pounds of ground beef. Each taco gets an equal amout of ground beef. How many pounds of ground beef are in each taco?
There is 1/21 pounds of ground beef in each taco.