Division Vocabulary
This number is what we divide by or how many groups will be divided into during the problem.
What is the divisor?
The Bluegrass Runners group runs a total of 240 miles each week. The members of the group run 6 days per week. How many miles do the members run each day?
What is 40 miles each day?
260 divided by 2 = ?
What is 130?
Goofus solved the following division problem: 872 divided by 4. He got the quotient 290. Was Goofus correct? Show your work!
What is NO, Goofus was incorrect.
Divide 739 by 2. What is your quotient?
What is 370?
In our Burger strategy, "Serve/Sell" stands for what?
What is Subtraction?
The Biking Club rode 2,256 miles total during the month of October. That is 3 times as many miles as they rode in September. How many miles did they ride in September?
What is 752 miles? (Watch for extra information in word problems!)
Larissa is trying to earn $120 for some new art supplies. If she charges 3 dollars to rake leaves from a yard, how many yards will she have to rake to earn the money?
What is 40 yards?
Goofus solved the following division problem: 310 divided by 5. He got the quotient 62. Was Goofus correct? Show your work!
What is YES, Goofus was correct.
If a family of 5 koalas eats 10,000 grams of eucalyptus leaves per day, how much would they eat in two weeks?
What is 140,000?
This is the larger number in a division problem that is being split into equal groups.
What is the dividend?
Melissa purchased a new computer for her home. The computer cost $3,395. She would like to make 5 equal payments to pay off the computer. How much will each payment be?
What is $679?
A new video game console needs six computer chips. If a machine can create four hundred sixty-eight chips a day, then how many video game consoles can be created in one day?
What is 78 consoles?
Goofus solved the following division problem: 6666 divided by 6. He got the quotient 1111. Was Goofus correct? Show your work!
What is YES, Goofus was correct!
There were 3,220 four-legged animals at the zoo. How many legs were there altogether?
What is 12,880 legs?
The answer to a division problem is called the _________.
What is the quotient?
Marty put 65 brownies on 5 plates. She put the same number of brownies on each plate. How many brownies will there be on each plate?
What is 13 brownies on each plate?
Ms. Moore has tickets to pass out to all of the classrooms for a program. She has 162 flyers and she needs to pass out an equal amount to third and fourth grade classes. Solve to find out how many each classroom would receive.
What is 27?
Goofus solved the following division problem: 424 divided by 4. He got the quotient 204. Was Goofus correct? Show your work!
What is NO, Goofus was incorrect.
Ms. Sapaugh decides to provide lunch from George's for the third and fourth grade teachers, plus Ms. Fisher, Ms. Perkins, and Ms. Erwin. The total cost for everyone's lunch is $360. What is the cost for each teacher?
What is $40.
All of these are division clue words in word problems EXCEPT: A. Equally B. Times C. Quotient D. Divided
What is Times?
5th grade is going on a field trip to Louisville, Kentucky. There are 138 boys going and 84 girls going. There needs to be a chaperone for each group of 6 children. How many chaperones will need to go on the field trip so that every student is in a group?
What is 37 chaperones?
7,928 divided by 8 =
What is 991?
Goofus solved the following division problem: 276 divided by 3. He got the quotient 92. Was Goofus correct? Show your work!
What is YES, Goofus was correct.
Use the digits 1, 2, 3, and 4 to create a division problem with a one-digit divisor that will give you the GREATEST quotient.
What is 432 divided by 1?