Vocabulary
What is a product?
The answer to a multiplication problem.
123 x 6
738
783 divided by 3
261
A school has 24 classrooms and each classroom has 18 students. How many students are there altogether.
432 students
A teacher has 144 pencils and wants to divide them equally among 12 students. How many pencils will each student receive?
12 pencils
What is a factor?
The numbers that you multiply to get a product.
43 x 27
1,161
5085 divided by 9
565
A bookstore has 125 boxes of books. Each box has 24 books. How many books does the bookstore have?
3,000 books
A school has 1,248 books to place equally one 24 shelves. How many books will be on each shelf?
52 books
What is a dividend?
The number that is being divided.
246 x 16
3,936
3036 divided by 12
253
A theater has 36 rows and 125 seats in each row. How many seats are in the theater?
4,500 seats.
A bakery made 2,475 cookies and packed them equally into 33 boxes. How many cookies will be in each box?
75 cookies
What is a divisor?
The number that you are dividing by.
352 x 23
8,096
6,924 divided by 12
577
A school is ordering 248 packs of markers. Each pack contains 36 markers. How many markers will the school receive?
8,928
A school collected 4,320 cans for a food drive. The cans will be packed equally into boxes containing 18 cans each. How many boxes will be packed?
240 boxes.
What is a quotient?
The answer to a division problem.
483 x 24
11,592
8,939 divided by 7
1,277
A company ships 325 boxes of supplies. Each box contains 48 items. How many boxes of supplies did the company ship out?
15,600 supplies
A company has 15,750 pencils to distribute equally among 35 schools. Each school will divide its pencils among 15 classrooms. How many pencils will each classroom receive?
1,050 pencils