Making Sense of Remainders

Bob is filling bags of candy for his birthday party. He is putting 7 pieces in each bag. If he has 80 pieces of candy, how many bags can he make?

The answer is 11 Remainder 3. What is the remainder?

• bags

• pieces of candy

• parties

• unicorns

Bob is filling bags of candy for his birthday party. He is putting 7 pieces in each bag. If he has 80 pieces of candy, how many bags can he make?

What is Bob's goal?

• give out all the candy

• put all of the candy in bags

• fill as many bags as he can

• move to Hawaii

Bob is filling bags of candy for his birthday party. He is putting 7 pieces in each bag. If he has 80 pieces of candy, how many bags can he make?

Since his goal is to make as many bags as he can, what will he do with the three left over pieces of candy?

• Ignore them

• Round up and make another full bag

• Cut them into fractions

• The remainder is the answer to the question

You are dividing people into equal groups to fill vans to take them to a ball game. If there are some people left over after you fill as many vans as you can, what will you do with the remainder?

• ignore it: the people left over just won't get to go

• round up: you will need another whole van, even though it won't be full

• the answer is the remainder

• turn the remainder into a fraction: you will cut the last van into smaller pieces

You are making equal teams from a group of people. If you want to know how many people won't be on a team, what will you do with the remainder?

• ignore it:

• round up

• the remainder is the answer

• turn the people left over into fractions and put part of a person on each of the teams.

If you are giving out (dividing) money, what will you always do with a remainder?

• ignore it

• round up to the next whole number

• the remainder will be the answer

• turn it into a decimal fraction

If you are filling something, and the question is "how many can you fill completely, what do you do with the remainder?

• ignore it

• round up to the next whole number

• turn it into a fraction

• the remainder is the answer

If you have to send all of something somewhere in containers (buses, vans, cars, shipping boxes, etc.) and the question is how many containers will you need, what will you always do with a remainder?

• ignore it

• round up the next whole number

• the remainder will be the answer

• turn it into a fraction

If the question in a division problem is how many full containers can you make, what will you always do with a remainder?

• ignore it

• round up to the next whole number

• the remainder will be the answer

• turn it into a fraction

If you are sharing food that can easily be cut into smaller pieces or amounts, what will you always do with a remainder?

• ignore it

• round up to the next whole number

• the remainder will be the answer

• turn it into a fraction