Vocabulary
When you are repeatedly subtracting or taking away. Or when you are breaking something up into groups.
Division
122 ÷ 9
13 r 5
A cat has 126 baby sloths over 9 years. How many babies per year does a cat have?
14 babies per year
1470 ÷ 7
210
Benjamin wants to split a collection of crayons into groups of 14. Benjamin has 518 crayons. How many groups will be created?
37 groups
What are the steps to division?
Divide, Multiply, Subtract, Bring Down, Repeat or Remainder
534 ÷ 6
89
While making a toy castle Noah creates 256 rooms over 4 different floors. If they are distributed evenly, how many rooms are on each floor?
64 rooms
136 ÷ 3
45 r 1
Benjamin is inviting 79 friends to a party. He has 632 cookies. How many cookies will each friend get?
8 cookies
The number on the outside of the division equation. The number you are dividing by.
Divisor
146 ÷ 3
48 r 2
Andrew cuts 280 slices of watermelon and divided them evenly among 5 platters. How many watermelon slices are on each platter?
56 watermelon slices
799 ÷ 8
99 r 7
Kathleen is inviting 58 friends to a party. She has 1160 cookies. How many cookies will each friend get?
20 cookies
The number on the inside of the division equation. The number being divided.
Dividend
245 ÷ 7
35
Cohen owns 138 marbles. He divides those marbles and shares them evenly with 6 friends. How many marbles does each friend get?
23 marbles
6358 ÷ 17
374
Carlos is inviting 97 friends to a party. He has 7372 cookies. How many cookies will each friend get?
76 cookies
Answer to a division problem
Quotient
228 ÷ 8
28 r 4
While making a toy castle Jacob creates 100 rooms over 4 different floors. If they are distributed evenly, how many rooms are on each floor?
25 rooms
5610 ÷ 25
224.4
There are 97 students in the class and 8148 blocks. If the blocks are divided equally among the students, how many does each student get?
84 blocks