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

36/4

9

100

5th grade needs buses to transport 579 students.  If each bus carries 48 students, what is the least number of buses needed?

What is 13 buses?

100

851/12

70   11/12

100

Mr. Mourfield 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.

He needs 54 vans.

200

Numbers that are easy to compute.

What are compatible numbers?

200

1,600/4

What is 400?

200

A factory makes 718 toy trains in one day.  The toy trains are placed in boxes of 30.  How many boxes will be filled?  How many toy trains are left over?

What is 23 boxes?

What is 28 trains?

200

52,456/21

2,497    19/21

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?  Between what two numbers does your quotient lie?

13   2/4


Between 13 and 14

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

560/8=

What is 70?

300

A small business makes bottles of lemonade.  Today, they have 528 ounces of lemonade to bottle.   Each bottle holds 24 ounces.  They sell each bottle for $2.00.  How many bottles did they sell today and what was their total of money made today?

What is 22 bottles sold?

What is $44.00 made?

300

521/4 Report remainder as a fraction

130    1/4

300

There are 453 people that tried out for the football team. The coach separated them into teams of 16. How many football players will have to sit out?

Five players will have to sit out.

400

The answer to a division problem ___________.

What is quotient?

400
721/3
What is 200
400

Caprice packed 3 boxes. The least number of toys she put in each box was 18 and the greatest was 22. What is a reasonable estimate of toys Caprice packed.

60

400

834/13

64     2/13

400

Tina, GiGi, Officer Goad, Mr. Casson, and Mr. Martin won $325 dollars. If they want to split the money evenly, how much money would each person get?

Each person will get $65.00.

500

The amount being split into groups 

What is dividend?

500
900/10=
What is 90?
500

Ms. Lorenz is displaying art projects in the hall. There are 527art projects. She wants to hang the projects on 17 walls around campus.  How many projects will be on each wall if she displays them evenly?

What is 31 art projects?

500

Model 2.52/4 using a quick picture.

Each group will have 0.63

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?

They need 28 tables.