Thinking about division

​Thinking about division

By Diana Essel

Draw

  Ms. Johnson shared 3 pizzas with 6 students during lunch.  How much pizza did each student get?

Draw a diagram that explains how you know

Draw

  A 1/2  pound bag of candy is equally divided into four bags.  How much candy is in each bag?

Draw a diagram that explains how you know

Multiple Choice

The quotient of 5 ÷ 4 can be represented by the number of cookies each person gets if there are 5 cookies shared equally on 4 plates.

How much would each person get?

• Exactly 1 cookie

• Less than 1 cookie

• More than 1 cookie

Multiple Choice

Kiandra wants to share 6 cookies on 4 plates.

She wrote $$6\div4=1\ \frac{1}{2}$$

What does the $$1\ \frac{1}{2}$$ mean in this situation?

• cookies

• plates

• plates per cookie

• cookies per plate

Multiple Choice

Kiandra wants to share 2 cookies on 4 plates.

How much would each plate have?

• Exactly 1 cookie

• Less than 1 cookie

• More than 1 cookie

It's important when you are dividing that you are correctly able to identify your dividend and divisor and estimate how much the quotient will be.

Multiple Choice

What is a dividend?

• The answer to a division problem
• The number that is being divided
• The number hat divides the dividend
• What's left over

Multiple Choice

True or False: The divisor tells you how many parts the dividend will be divided into.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Which of the following terms represents the answer to a division problem?

• dividend

• divisor

• quotient

Multiple Choice

1. If 84 cookies are to be divided equally among 7 plates, what is the dividend?

• 84

• 7

• 12

Multiple Choice

1. A farmer has 120 apples to distribute among 10 baskets. What is the dividend?

• 120

• 10

• 15

Multiple Choice

1. If 63 pencils are to be divided among 9 students, what is the divisor?

• 63

• 9

• 7

Multiple Choice

John has 1/2 of a bag of candy. He splits it into 3 equal groups? What is the dividend?

• 3

• 8

• 1/2

Multiple Choice

Amari has 1/3 of a pack of Valentine's cards. She wants to split them into 10 groups. What is the divisor?

• 1/3

• 10

• 8

​Now complete Zearn Lesson 1