5th grade division

Division Vocab

100

What does quotient mean?

The answer to a division problem.

200

What does Divisor mean?

The number of groups you are dividing by.

300

How do I check a division problem to see if my answer is correct?

Use multiplication.

400

If I use multiplication to check my quotient is correct, what two numbers am I multiplying?

The quotient x divisor should equal dividend.

500

What is division?

Division is taking a total amount and creating groups of a certain number and the answer is the amount of groups that were created.

Division - 1

100

What is the name of the something we are dividing by?

Divisor

200

What is the name of the large number we are dividing?

Divident

300

What is the answer to a division problem called?

Quotient

400

When writing the remainder as a fraction, what does the numerator represent?

The remainder, what is left.

500

When writing the remainder as a fraction, what does the denominator represent?

The divisor, what we are dividing by, the number that makes a whole.

Division 2

100

3014 / 12

251 r 2

200

36096 / 4

9024

300

32 / 8 = 4

320 / 80 = 4

3,200 / 80 = 40

32,000 / 80 = ?

400

400

A coach has $1,280 in the budget to buy team jackets. The team held a fundraiser and raised $1,176. Each jacket costs $75.  How many jackets can the coach buy?

19 jackets

500

What is 478.479 rounded to the nearest tenth?

478.5

Division Challenge

100

84,000 / 12 = 

7,000

200

12,582 / 25

503 r 7

300

35265 / 35

1007 r 20

400

42562 / 35

1216 r 2

500

What did Mrs Cerra do for a living before she became a teacher?

A police officer.

Division 3

100

What are the steps in standard algorithm?

Divide

Multiply

Subtract

Bring Down

200

What statement correctly compares 0.46 to 46?

A. 0.46 is 100 times the value of 46

B. 0.46 is 10 times the value of 46

C. 0.46 is 1 hundredth the value of 46

D. 0.46 is 1 tenth the value of 46

C.

When comparing, the smaller number will be a fraction of the larger number.  When going down a number line, you are smaller.

46 x .01 = 0.46

300

Students are going on a field trip and buses are needed for 685 students.  If each bus carries 52 students, what is the least number of buses needed? 

13 buses.  The answer is 12 r 3. Since we can't have 3 students not go, 1 more bus is needed for the field trip.

400

Mrs Cerra buys 245 lollipops and 136 pieces of Jolly Ranchers.  Mrs Cerra gives her class of 25 the same number pieces of candy and puts the leftover candy in the treasure chest, how many pieces will be put in the treasure chest?

6 pieces go into the treasure chest.

500

Which equation is true when 40 is put in the blank space?

A. 280 / ___ = 7

B. 800 / ___ = 200

C. 4,000 / ___ = 10

D. 800 / ___ = 20

A and D

7 x 40 = 280

20 x 40 = 800