Interpreting Remainders

Dave is packing 23 sweaters into boxes. Each box will hold 3 sweaters. How many boxes will he need in all?

 $23\div3=7\ R2$  


How should you interpret the remainder?

• Add 1 to the quotient 

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.2

Jack is making muffins. He plans to use 5 raisins to decorate some of the muffins. If he has 21 raisins, how many muffins can he decorate?

 $21\div5=4\ R1$  

How should you interpret the remainder?

• Add 1 to the quotient

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.2

Mila is packing 18 jars into boxes. Each box will hold 4 jars. How many boxes will she fill?

 $18\div4=4\ R2$ 

How should you interpret the remainder?

• Add 1 to the quotient

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.2

Trey has 34 stickers to put in a sticker book. Each page in the book holds 5 stickers. How many pages will he need to hold his stickers?

 $34\div5=6\ R4$ 

How should you interpret the remainder?

• Add 1 to quotient

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.2

There are 27 students in Mrs. Brown's fourth grade class. Each table will seat 4 students. How many tables does she need to seat every student in her class?

• 7 tables

• 8 tables

• 7 r2 tables

• 9 tables

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

Mr. White has 27 flowers. If he puts 6 flowers in each vase, how many flowers will be left over?  

• 6
• 3
• 4
• 4 R 3

Tags

CCSS.4.NBT.B.6

Books are on sale for $7. Peter has $30 in his wallet. How many books can he buy?

• 4 books
• 5 books
• 2 Books
• 4 R 2 Books

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

There are 46 students wanting to join a summer camp. A camp counselor can only monitor 6 students. How many counselors does the supervisor need to hire for all the children?

• 3

• 4

• 7

• 8

Tags

CCSS.3.OA.A.3

A makeup store is putting together bundles of lip glosses. They have 87 lip glosses and a gift box can hold 8 glosses. How many complete bundles can the store make?

• 3

• 6

• 9

• 10

Tags

CCSS.4.NBT.B.6

Fred is making care packages for the soldiers overseas. A shipping box can hold 4 packages and he has 957 packages. How many packages will need to mail all the care packages?

• 1

• 3

• 239

• 240

Tags

CCSS.5.NBT.B.6

CCSS.6.NS.B.2