Division Mental Math
The answer to a division problem is called the _________.
What is the quotient?
The San Diego bakery makes a total of 244 cupcakes to display. They have 6 shelves to display the cupcakes. How many cupcakes can fit on each display?
What is 40 cupcakes
244/6 = 40 R4
261 divided by 3 = ?
What is 87
Aniyah has 120 colored pencils and wants to give them out to 5 friends. How many will each friend get?
24 colored pencils
Use mental math to find the quotient. 400 ÷ 8
50
Jane is going on a trip with some friends. She sees that six passengers fit into each minivan. If there are 20 students in the class going on a field trip with Jane, how many minivans do they need to take for the trip?
21/6= 3 R3
They need 4 minivans are needed.
1,119 divided by 6
186 R 3
2,400 divided by 60
What is 40
Our class is doing a fundraiser. We are selling candy bars for a holiday fundraiser. We earn $6 for each box of candy bars sold. Jay sells 7 boxes. James sells 5 times as many boxes. How much money did the two boys earn for selling candy bars?
Jay- 7x6=42
James- 7x5= 35; 35x6 = 210
210+42= $252 altogether
Use mental math to find the quotient. 2,500 ÷ 5
500
Melissa purchased a new computer for her home. The computer cost $955. She would like to make 5 equal payments to pay off the computer. How much will each payment be?
What is $191.
A new video game console needs five computer chips. If a machine can create four hundred sixty-seven chips a day, then how many video game consoles can be created in one day?
What is 93 consoles
A coach ordered 6 soccer goals for $678. How much did each goal cost?
$113
Draw base ten blocks to model the solution to 37 ÷ 2.
*Teacher will check board to see if it is drawn correctly
18 R1
6,300 / 7
900
Allison has 14 lego sets. Mason has 3 times as many Lego sets as Allison. Mason puts his Lego sets in large bins that hold 5 Lego sets each. He fills as many bins as he can and then puts the rest on a shelf. How many Lego sets does Mason put on the shelf?
8 R2
He puts 2 lego sets on the shelf.
4,329 divided by 4
1,082 R 1
Monica and her parents spent $170 on new swimsuits. Monica's swimsuit cost $37. Her mom's swimsuit cost twice as much as Monica's. How much did her dad's swimsuit cost?
37+37= 74
74 +37= 111
170-111= $59
There are 32 candy canes in each box. Ariela buys 9 boxes to make candy cane ornaments. Ariela then takes the candy cane ornaments and places them in boxes that hold 7 each. She will sell the boxes for $6 each. How much money will Ariela make if she sells all of the boxes?
Write an equation using a variable for the unknown. Then solve to find how much money Ariela will earn.
(32 x 9) / 7 x 6 = m
m= $288
Use mental math to find the quotient. 3,000 ÷ 5
600
4th grade is going on a field trip. There are 139 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 ever student is in a group?
What is 38 chaperones. (The answer is 37 Remainder 1, 1 student can't be left alone, therefore they will need 38 chaperones).
6,289 divided by 6 =
What is 1,048 R1
Joel divided 68 CDs evenly on 4 shelves in his bedroom. The CDs are arranged in alphabetical order, with the first shelf containing letters A-E. If there are 13 CDs filed under A-D, how many CDs are filed under the letter E?
4 CDs
Kalani and Ari are organizing the classroom. They need to put the markers into bins. Thirty-four marker sets are divided equally between two bins. Kalani sees that one bin has all thin marker sets. Ari sees that the other bin contains 3 thin marker sets and the rest are thick marker sets. How many marker sets are thick ones?
34/2 = 17
17-3 = 14
14 are thick markers