Division Adventures: Estimating & Sharing in Real Life

A bakery made 240 cookies and wants to pack them into boxes. If each box can hold 12 cookies, how many boxes will they need? Estimate the number of boxes before calculating.

• 15

• 25

• 20

• 18

Sarah has 150 marbles. She wants to share them equally among her 5 friends. How many marbles will each friend get? What will be the remainder?

• Each friend gets 30 marbles, and the remainder is 0.

• Each friend gets 35 marbles, and the remainder is 0.

• Each friend gets 30 marbles, and the remainder is 10.

• Each friend gets 25 marbles, and the remainder is 5.

A farmer has 1,200 apples and wants to sell them in bags of 15 apples each. How many bags can he fill? Estimate how many bags he will need before calculating.

• 75

• 90

• 80

• 100

In a library, there are 1,500 books. If each shelf can hold 25 books, how many shelves are needed to store all the books? Estimate the number of shelves first.

• 75

• 100

• 50

• 60

A school is organizing a field trip for 360 students. If each bus can carry 40 students, how many buses are needed? What is the estimated number of buses required?

• 9

• 7

• 10

• 8

Tom has 450 stickers. He wants to give them to his 9 friends equally. How many stickers will each friend receive? Will there be any stickers left over?

• Each friend will receive 60 stickers, and there will be 30 stickers left over.

• Each friend will receive 40 stickers, and there will be 10 stickers left over.

• Each friend will receive 50 stickers, and there will be no stickers left over.

• Each friend will receive 45 stickers, and there will be 5 stickers left over.

A toy store has 1,000 toys and wants to display them in groups of 20. How many groups can they make? Estimate the number of groups before calculating.

• 30

• 60

• 50

• 40

A gardener has 2,400 seeds and wants to plant them in rows of 30 seeds each. How many rows can he plant? What will be the estimated number of rows?

• 100

• 80

• 90

• 70

A pizza shop made 300 pizzas for a party. If each table can hold 15 pizzas, how many tables will be needed? Estimate the number of tables before calculating.

• 15

• 20

• 25

• 10

A teacher has 180 pencils and wants to distribute them equally among her 12 students. How many pencils will each student get? Will there be any pencils left?

• Each student will get 15 pencils and there will be no pencils left.

• Each student will get 20 pencils and there will be no pencils left.

• Each student will get 18 pencils and there will be 6 pencils left.

• Each student will get 12 pencils and there will be 24 pencils left.