Divide!
The Real World Problems
What to do about the remainder
Challenge
Vocabulary
100
4276 ÷ 3
1425 r1
100
Yvette has 336 eggs to put into cartons. She puts one dozen eggs into each carton. How many cartons does she fill?
28 cartons
100
Warren spent 140 hours making 16 wooden toy trucks for a craft fair. If he spent the same amount of time making each truck, how many hours did he spend making each truck?
8 3/4 hours
100
Duane has 12 times as many baseball cards as Tony. Between them, they have 208 baseball cards. How many baseball cards does each boy have?
Tony has 16 cards. Duane has 192 cards.
100
The process of sharing a number of items to find how many equal groups can be made or how many items will be in each equal group.
Division
200
1425 ÷ 19
75
200
Ned mows a 450 square-foot garden in 15 minutes. How many square feet of the garden does he mow in one minute?
30 square feet
200
Marcia has 412 bouquets of flowers for centerpieces. She uses 8 flowers for each centerpiece. How many centerpieces can she make?
51 centerpieces
200
Hallie has 10 times as many pages to read for her homework assignment as Janet. Altogether, they have to read 264 pages. How many pages does each girl have to read?
Janet read 24 pages. Hallie read 240 pages.
200
The number that you divide by.
Divisor
300
1296 ÷ 36
36
300
Maggie orders 19 identical gift boxes. The Ship-Shape Packaging Company packs and ships the boxes for $1,292. How much does it cost to pack and ship each box?
$68
300
On the 5th grade class picnic, 50 students share 75 sandwiches equally. How many sandwiches does each student get?
1 1/2 sandwiches
300
Hank has 48 fish in his aquarium. He has 11 times as many tetras as guppies. How many of each type of fish does Hank have?
Hank has 4 guppies and 44 tetras.
300
The number that is to be divided in a division problem.
Dividend
400
6370 ÷ 29
219 r19
400
A bakery packages 868 cupcakes into 31 boxes. The same number of cupcakes are put into each box. How many cupcakes are in each box?
28 cupcakes
400
One plant container holds 14 tomato seedlings. If you have 1,113 seedlings, how many containers do you need to hold all the seedlings?
80 containers
400
Kelly has 4 times as many songs on her music player as Lou. Tiffany has 6 times as many songs on her music player as Lou. Altogether, they have 682 songs on their music players. How many songs does Kelly have?
Kelly has 248 songs.
400
A set of related equations.
Fact Family
500
22957 ÷ 44
521 r33
500
Julia wants to make 8 bows using 18 feet of ribbon. She wants to use an equal length of ribbon for each bow with no ribbon left over. How many feet of ribbon can she use for each bow?
2 1/4 feet
500
Jenny has 220 ounces of cleaning solution that she wants to divide equally among 12 large containers. How much cleaning solution should she put in each container?
18 1/3 ounces
500
Jo has a gerbil and a German shepherd. The shepherd eats 14 times as much food as the gerbil. Altogether, they eat 225 ounces of dry food per week. How many ounces of food does the German shepherd eat per week?
210 ounces
500
A method of dividing in which multiples of the divisor are subtracted from the dividend and then the quotients are added together
Partial Quotients