Division Vocabulary
The number that is being divided?
Dividend
Jane drove 49 miles each hour for 5 hours. What is the best estimate of the total distance she drove in 5 hours.
250 miles
The number that is being used to divide another number.
Divisor
65/4
16 R1
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
The amount left over when a number cannot be divided evenly.
What is the remainder?
545/8=
What is 70?
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
The result of a division problem.
Quotient
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
The action of separating something into parts or the process of being separated.
Division
Mrs Eckhoff is displaying art projects in the hall. There are 25 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?
5