Division Vocabulary
Finding a number that is close to the exact amount.
What is estimating?
90/3=
What is 30?
The 3 in 3 x 6 = 18
What is the factor?
The basic facts in 1400 / 7 = 200
What are 14 & 7?
84 / 4=
What is 21?
Numbers that are easy to compute.
What are compatible numbers?
280/7=
What is 40?
The 18 in 3 x 6 = 18
What is the product?
The property shown: 128 / 4 = (100/4) + (20/4) + (8/4)
What is the distributive property?
615 / 5
What is 123?
The amount left over when a number cannot be divided evenly.
What is the remainder?
560/8=
What is 70?
The 3 in 18 / 6 = 3
What is the quotient?
Repeated ___________ can be used in place of division.
What is subtraction?
850 / 4 =
What is 212 R2?
A strategy used to solve a division equation that uses basic facts to solve smaller bits of the dividend first, before adding all the quotients together.
What is the area model?
720/9=
What is 80?
The 6 in 18 / 6 = 3
What is the divisor?
To check your answer to a division problem
What is multiply?
A community group is setting up 616 chairs in 22 equal rows for an outdoor music event. How many chairs will be in each row?
What are 20 chairs?
Dividing where multiples of the divisor are subtracted from the dividend and then the quotients are added together.
What is the partial quotient?
900/10=
What is 90?
The 18 in 18 / 6 = 3
What is the dividend?
1214/4 changed to 1200/4=300
What is an estimation?
Twelve buses bring a total of 420 people to the Effiel Tower in Paris. Each bus carries the same number of people. How many people are on each bus? Write and solve an equation to find p, the number of people on each bus.
What is p=35?