Lesson 5 Vocabulary (Dividing Whole Numbers)

The quotients you get in each step of the partial-quotient strategy. You use place value to find partial quotients.

• Divisor

• Dividend

• Partial Quotients

• Inverse Operations

The result of division.

• Partial Quotients

• Quotient

• Dividend

• Divisor

The number that is to be divided or distributed into a certain number of equal parts.

• Dividend

• Inverse Operations

• Divisor

• Quotient

The number leftover in a division problem.

• Dividend

• Remainder

• Inverse Operations

• Divisor

Operations that undo each other. For example, addition and subtraction are inverse operations, and multiplication and division are inverse operations.

• Remainder

• Dividend

• Inverse Operations

• Partial Quotients

A number that divides another number either completely or with a remainder.

• Quotient

• Remainder

• Divisor

• Partial Quotients