Interpreting Remainders

A bagel shop has 138 bagels to be packed into boxes of 12. The extra bagels are given to the workers. How many bagels do the workers get?

• 12 - round up

• 11 - ignore the remainder

• 6 - remainder is the answer

• 11 6/12 - turn it into a fraction

Mr. Bull bought a package of Skittles with 341 pieces of candy.  He split them evenly among his 5 groups and ate the rest.  How many did he save for next year?

• 68 - ignore the remainder

• 1 - remainder is the answer

• 69 - round it up

• 68 1/68 - turn it into a fraction

• Add 1 to the quotient 

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

• Add 1 to the quotient

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

39 divided by 4

• 6

• 9 r 3

• 3 r 9

If you place the items into equal groups, tell how many coins are in each bag and how many are left over:

45 coins into 7 bags

• 7 coins; 4 left over

• 4 coins; 5 left over

• 5 coins; 6 left over

• 6 coins: 3 left over

75 ÷ 9

• 6 r3

• 8 r3

• 6 r5

• 7 r3

37 ÷ 5 =

• 7 r 2

• 5 r 2

• 4 r 4

• 6 r 7

35 ÷ 4 =

• 8

• 8 R 2

• 8 R 3

• 8 R 8

There are 21 shapes below. How many groups of 9 can you make with them? How many will you have left?

• 2 with a remainder of 1

• 2 with a remainder of 2

• 3 with a remainder of 2

• 2 with a remainder of 3