Division Sentences

The _____ is the answer in a division sentence.

40 ÷ 5 = 8 What is the dividend?

The ________ is the big number in a division sentence.

The ________ is the number of rows in a division sentence.

Each pack of pencils contains 8 pencils. Sara bough 3 packs and divided them equally among 6 people. How many pencils did each person get? 

• 24

• 4

• 17

• 5

Paul has 49 pieces of candy to pass out on Halloween. After passing out candy to 7 different kids Paul realizes he has no more candy left. Which of the following drawings represents how many pieces of candy Paul handed out to each of the 7 kids?

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12 ÷ 4 = 3 What is 12 in this sentence?

• dividend

• divisor

• quotient

• equal sign

16 cubes ÷ 4 rows = 4 columns What is 16 in this sentence?

• dividend

• divisor

• quotient

• rows

Jesse put 24 apples into 4 baskets. How many were in each basket? Answer: 6 apples

• 24 ÷ 6 = 6

• 6 ÷ 4 = 24

• 24 ÷ 4 = 6

• 4 ÷ 6 = 24

What would be a good group name for this division sentence? Jesse put 10 droids into 2 _____.