Vocabulary
What is division?
Division is an operation that finds how many things are divided equally into groups.
492 ÷ 4 = ???
123
759 ÷ 5 = ???
151 4/5
4.85 ÷ 5 = ???
0.97
Mrs. Mowery helps 378 students sit each day at lunch. 9 students can sit in each row. How many total rows are filled with students throughout the day?
Mrs. Mowery helps fill 42 rows of students each day.
What is the answer to a division problem called?
Quotient
1,284 ÷ 6 = ???
214
7,921 ÷ 7 =
1,131 4/7
18.8 ÷ 4 = ???
4.7
Over 3 days of recess, the 5th grade teachers use 927 wipes each day to clean equipment. If they use the same amount each day, how many wipes do they use each day?
The 5th grade teachers use 309 wipes each day.
In the example 20 ÷ 5 = 4, what is the vocabulary word used to describe the number 20? Hint: It is the number that will be divided!
Dividend
345 ÷ 14 = ???
24 9/14
895 ÷ 42 = ???
21 13/42
29.36 ÷ 8 = ???
3.67
At lunch, the cafeteria workers pass out a total of 782 sticks of celery to 34 students. If each student get the same amount of celery sticks, how many sticks does each student get?
Each student would get 23 celery sticks.
In the example 20 ÷ 5 = 4, what is the vocabulary word used to describe the number 5? Hint: It is the number that does the dividing!
Divisor
1,362 ÷ 11 = ???
123 9/11
6,547 ÷ 31 = ???
211 6/31
78.10 ÷ 22 = ???
3.55
Mr. Renninger makes 1,293 brownies for his class to take home to their families. Mr. Renninger has a total of 36 students. How many brownies will each student get to take home if they are split up evenly?
Each student will get to take 35 33/36 brownies home.
In division, we have been reporting our remainder as a fraction. What are the top and bottom numbers of a fraction called?
4,798 ÷ 17 = ???
282 4/17
3,561 ÷ 15 =???
237 6/15
49.8 ÷ 15 = ???
3.32
During the month of October, students spent 8,360 minutes in school. How many minutes did the students spend in school each day if there were a total of 22 days?
Students spent 380 minutes in school each day.