Vocabulary
What is the quotient?
The answer to a division problem
Kharlie needs to save $240. To earn money, she plans to wash cars and charge $12 per car. How many cars will Kharlie need to wash?
20 Cars
Draw a bar model for the following problem: Diane has 12 times as many baseball cards as Tony. Between them, they have 208 baseball cards.
Tony (one box)
Diane (12 boxes)
Divide
1,289 / 22
58 r 13
Wayd is buying apples for the fifth grade. Each bag holds 12 apples. If there are 75 students total, how many bags of apples will Wayd need to buy if he wants to give one apple to each student?
7 bags
What is a divisor?
The number you divide by
$18
What number would go inside each box for the previous problem? Diane has 12 times as many baseball cards as Tony. Between them, they have 208 baseball cards.
16
Divide
189 / 17
11 r 2
Olive needs 322 yards of ribbon to decorate quilts for a craft fair. The ribbon comes in rolls of 15 yards. How many rolls of ribbon should Olive buy?
22 rolls
The answer is 21 r 7, but you can't buy only part of a roll. She will need 22 rolls in order to complete the project.
What is the dividend?
The number that is to be divided. The number you start with in a division problem.
Paisley is making a seating chart for an award banquet. There are 184 people coming to the banquet. If 8 people can be seated at each table, how many tables will be needed for the awards banquet?
23 tables
Eric and Stephanie took their younger sister Melissa to pick apples. Eric picked 4 times as many apples as Melissa. Stephanie picked 6 times as many apples as Melissa. They picked 253 apples in total. How many apples did Eric pick? Draw a bar model to solve
92 apples
Divide
1,427 / 13
109 r 10
Jeanette and Leslie are trying to solve this problem: A camp counselor has a list of 134 campers who signed up for art class. The counselor can place 8 students in each class. How many classes does the counselor need to have?
Jeanette says the counselor needs 17 classes, Leslie says the counselor needs 16 classes. Which student is correct? Explain why.
Jeanette is correct. The quotient is 16 r 6. The remainder of 6 represents 6 campers. These students must have a class to go to, so you need 17 classes in total.
What is an estimate?
Find a number that is close to the exact amount.
Jersey wants to save the same amount of money each week for a trip. She needs $3,060. If the trip is 36 weeks away, how much money should Jessie save each week?
$85
Paula has a dog that weighs 3 times as much as Carla's dog. The total weight of the dogs is 48 pounds. How much does Paula's dog weigh? Draw a bar model to solve.
36 pounds
Divide
762 / 3
254
Leon has 220 ounces of cleaning solution that he wants to divide equally among 12 large containers. How much cleaning solution should he put in each container?
18 1/3 ounces
What is a remainder?
The amount left over when a number cannot be divided evenly.
Brayden is having a dinner party for 135 people at his favorite restaurant. If 9 people can be seated at each table, how many tables are there?
15 tables
Stephen has a dog that weighs 5 times as much as Ian's dog. The total weight of both dogs is 72 pounds. How much does Stephen's dog weigh? Draw a bar model.
60 pounds
Divide
364 / 4
91
Russ and Vickie are trying to solve this problem: There are 146 students taking buses to the museum. If each bus holds 24 students, how many buses will they need?
Russ says the students need 6 buses. Vickie says they need 7 buses. Who is correct? Explain why.