Division Vocabulary
Mental Division
Word Problems
Divide!
Interpret Remainder
100
Finding a number that is close to the exact amount.
What is estimating?
100

360/4

90

100

Judy is having a birthday party. She invited seven friends over and made 98 cookies for party favors. How many cookies did each friend get?

14 cookies

100

851/2

425 R1

100

Mr. Lager has a huge family. They are going on camping trip! He has 323 total people going. If each van holds 6 people, how many vans does he need to rent.

54 vans 

200

The number that is to be divided in a division problem is called the _______.

Dividend

200

21,000/3

7000

200

Today Susan sold 126 cookies in total. There are 9 cookies in each box. How many boxes of cookies did she sell today?

14 boxes

200

700/21

33 R7

200

Shelby and Ellie is cutting ribbon into 4 foot pieces for a craft project. How many full pieces can she cut from the 54 foot roll?

13 full pieces 

300
The amount left over when a number cannot be divided evenly.
What is the remainder?
300

64,000/800

80

300

Mike’s Deli just sold 328 ham sandwiches this week. Around how many ham sandwiches did Mike sell every day this week? (Round to the nearest number)

47 sandwiches

300

9962/41

242 R40

300

There are 453 people that tried out for the football team. The coach separated them into teams of 9. How many football players will have to sit out?

3 people will have to sit out

400

The number, not including the remainder, that results from division.

 Quotient

400

900/10

 90

400

Don’s reading group has read 168 books this year. His reading group has six members. Each member read the same amount of books. How many books did each member read?

28 books

400

878/31

28 R10

400

Tina, Kari and Katie won $321 dollars. If they want to split the money evenly, how much money would each person get?

They each would get 107

500

The amount of "groups" in a division sentence is called the what? 

What is a divisor.

500

28,000/40

700.

500

Bridget likes to take photos with her new camera. She already has 285 photos. She just bought her camera 15 days ago, and took pictures every day. On average, how many photos did she take each day?

19 photos a day

500

Double Jeopardy

52,456/21

2,497 R19

500

The girl scouts are trying organize tables for the art projects. They have 45 tables in storage. Each table can display 3 art projects. If there are 83 art projects that need to go on display, how many tables should the pull out of the storage?

28 tables