Divide by a One-Digit Number

Vocabulary

100

What do you call the answer to a division problem?

Quotient

200

What do you call the x? 360 / 9 = x (Not the answer to the problem, the name of a letter in a problem)

Variable

300

What do you call the left over number that you get when you divide two numbers and it doesn't divide equally?

Remainder

400

When you estimate a division problem such as: 122 / 6 = ? and you change it to 120 / 6 = 20 What do you call the number 120? (the changed number that makes it easier to divide with)

compatible number

Division

100

2⟌600

300

200

9⟌7,200

800

300

Estimate. 9⟌2,660 >> 9⟌????

9⟌2,700 = 300

400

8⟌200

25

Division 2

100

2⟌64

32

200

8⟌783

97 R7

300

Estimate. 9⟌8,099 >> 9⟌????

9⟌8,100 = 900

400

2⟌2,157

1,078 R1

Word Problems

100

Clara's total score for 3 games of bowling is 312. If Clara earned the same score for each game, what was her score for each game?

3⟌312 = 104

200

On Saturday, 1,164 people saw a movie at the Scera Theater. There were a total of 4 movie screens with the same number of people in each audience. ABOUT HOW MANY people watched each screen?

4⟌1,164 = 291 people (actual amount) 4⟌1,200 = ABOUT 300 PEOPLE

300

Harry and Arnold earned $32 by doing yard work in their neighborhood. They will share their money equally. How much money will each person get?

$16

400

Casey and her two friends made $54 selling lemonade in their neighborhood. They will share their money equally. How much money will each person get? A) $18 B) $20 C) $27 D) $30

3⟌$54 = A) $18

Multi-step Word Problems

100

There are 3,250 buttons. If they are divided into groups of 8, how many groups are there? Interpret the remainder, tell what the remainder means.

8⟌3,250 = 406 R2 There are 406 groups with 2 buttons left over.

200

The water park had 1,212 visitors on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. If the same number of people visited the water park on each day, how many visitors were there on Friday? What about on Friday and Saturday together?

3⟌1,212 = 404 Friday = 404 visitors Friday + Saturday = 404 + 404 = 808 visitors

300

Big "O" Tires helped 84 customers on Saturday. The Discount Tire Store helped twice as many customers on Saturday. How many customers did both tire places help together?

84 + (84 x 2) = 252 customers

400

Hunter bought three boxes of cereal bars. Each box has 35 strawberry cereal bars. He also bought 20 apple cereal bars and SOME blueberry cereal bars. There are a total of 150 cereal bars. Write an equation to describe the number of cereal bars that Hunter bought. How many blueberry cereal bars did Hunter buy?

(3 x 35) + 20 + B = 150 105 + 20 + B = 150 125 + B = 150 B = (150 - 125) B = 25