Division Vocabulary
What is the answer to a division problem
Quotient
600/5
120
36/5
7.2
90/9
10
What do we circle in a word problem
Numbers
A number by which another number is being divided (outside house)
Divisor
408/12
34
3.2/20
0.16
50/2
25
What do we underline in word problems
The question
A number to be divided by another number (inside house)
Dividend
3078/27
114
42/12
3.5
48/8
6
What do we box in word problems
Action words, words that tell us what to do
What number cannot have a decimal when dividing
Divisor
4340/35
124
1.36/16
0.085
63/9
7
A garden store is making seed packets. Each packet contains 35 seeds. There are 1,960 seeds available. How many seed packets can be made?
How would you mark the text
circle 35, 1960
underline - How many seed packets can be made
box- each
What words in a word problem tell us to divide
Each, equal
75232/16
4702
15.2/608
0.025
1,000/5
200
A garden store is making seed packets. Each packet contains 35 seeds. There are 1,960 seeds available. How many seed packets can be made?
Solve and write the answer in a sentence
56 packets can be made