5th Grade Division

Division Vocabulary

100

Finding a number that is close to the exact amount.

What is estimating?

200

Numbers that are easy to compute.

What are compatible numbers?

300

The amount left over when a number cannot be divided evenly.

What is the remainder?

400

In the equation 132 divided by 12 =  132 is the _________.

What is dividend?

500

The result of dividing two numbers is the ________.

What is quotient?

Mental Division

100

35/4  best estimate

9

200

1,543/4  best estimate

What is 400?

300

545/8=  best estimate

What is 70?

400

721/3  best estimate

What is 200

500

900/10=

What is 90?

Word Problems

100

Mrs. Wicker drove 49 miles each hour for 5 hours. What is the best estimate of the total distance she drove in 5 hours.

250 miles

200

The pet store had 4 rows of cages for dogs with 9 cages in each row. When I went to the pet store there were only 5 empty cages. How many cages had dogs in them?

31 cages

300

Noah packed $10 in his wallet for the movies. The movie was $5.25. He also bought a candy bar for $1.75. How much money did he have left?

$3

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

500

Mrs Sandidge is displaying art projects in the hall. There are 144 art projects. She wants to hang the projects so the same number of projects are hanging across as down. How many are in one row?

12

Divide!

100

851/2

425 remainder 1

200

52,456/21

2,497 remainder 19

300

521/4 Report remainder as a fraction

130 and 1/4

400

834/3 Report as a whole number and a remainder Report as a whole number and a fraction Report as a whole number and a decimal

278 and 1/3

500

344/7

49 and 1/7

Interpret Remainder

100

Ms. Nix has a huge family. They are going on camping trip! She has 323 total people going. If each van holds 6 people, how many vans does she need to rent.

54 vans

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 

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 players 

400

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

$107

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