Interpreting Remainders

• 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

• Add 1 to quotient

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

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

35 ÷ 4 =

• 8

• 8 R 2

• 8 R 3

• 8 R 8

A teacher needs to buy pencils for 78 students. A package comes with 8 pencils in each package. How many packages will the teacher need to give a pencil to every student?

How will you use the remainder?

• Write as a fraction

• Ignore it

• Round up

There are 30 students in Mrs. Brown's fourth grade class. If she splits them into groups of 4. How many students would not be in a group?

• 7

• 2

• 5

• 8

Tags

CCSS.Math.Content.4.OA.A.3

remainder

• a number whose whole number and fraction part are separated by a decimal

• when a number is smaller than another number

• when a number is bigger than another number

• what is left over if a number cannot be divided evenly

Ms. Wilmeth bought 4 bags of candy. Each bag contained 8 pieces of candy. She put an equal number of all the pieces into each of 9 gift boxes.

How many pieces of candy were left over?

Mathematical Equivalence

ON

17 ÷ 4 =

• 6 r 1

• 5 r 1

• 4 r 2

• 4 r 1