WorksheetsDivision Interpret the Remainder
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 19mins
Jack is moving houses and needs to pack 38 books into small boxes. He packs 6 books in each box. How many books will not fit into a box?
228
6
2
Mae has 167 sunflower plants. She wants to plant them in 3 equal rows. If she combines the remainder with one of the rows, how much will be in the largest row?
55
57
56
2
The amount left over when a number cannot be divided equally.
Quotient
Inverse operations
Remainder
The number that results from dividing.
Sum
Product
Quotient
17 ÷ 4 =
6 r 1
5 r 1
4 r 2
4 r 1
37 ÷ 5 =
7 r 2
5 r 2
4 r 4
6 r 7
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
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
A store has 6,039 Halloween masks to place on their shelves. They are putting an equal number of masks on 8 shelves. Leftover masks will be placed on an empty shelf. How many masks are on the 8 full shelves?
754 masks
755 masks
7 masks
753 masks
35 ÷ 4 =
8
8 R 2
8 R 3
8 R 8
Lucy bought a pack of 296 stickers, she wants to share these evenly among herself and three of her friends. How many stickers will each person get?
81
97
75 R2
74
Fifty-three students are going on a field trip. The students are divided into groups of 6 students. How many groups of 6 students will there be? (a) If the remaining students form a smaller group, and one chaperone is assigned to every group, how many total chaperones are needed? (b)
8
5
9
7
6
39 divided by 4
6
9 r 3
3 r 9
75 ÷ 9
6 r3
8 r3
6 r5
7 r3
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
To separate into equal groups; the inverse operation of multiplication.
Divide
Divisor
Dividend
Does 36 ÷ 4 have a reminder?
yes
no
A park guide plans the swan boat rides for 37 people. Each boat can carry 6 people at a time.
What is the best way to interpret the remainder in this situation so that everyone gets a ride? Complete the statement.
increase the quotient by 1
just use the quotient
just use the remainder
decrease the quotient
Dallas divides his 85 toy cars into boxes. Each box holds 8 cars.
How many boxes does Dallas need to store all of his cars? (Interpret the remainder.)
8
9
10
11
