Division strategies and story problems
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Find 6,300 ÷ 7 and 640 ÷ 8.
63 hundreds ÷ 7 = 9 hundreds = 900. 64 tens ÷ 8 = 8 tens = 80.
2
Find 294 ÷ 6 with partial quotients.
6 × 40 = 240, left 54; 6 × 9 = 54. 40 + 9 = 49. Check: 49 × 6 = 294.
3
Find 837 ÷ 9 with the standard algorithm and check.
83 ÷ 9 = 9, 2 left; 27 ÷ 9 = 3. The quotient is 93. Check: 93 × 9 = 837.
4
Salma has 250 LE. A school bag costs 40 LE. How many bags can she buy and how much money is left?
250 ÷ 40 = 6 R 10. She can buy 6 bags and 10 LE is left.
5
A farm packs 752 eggs into boxes of 6. How many full boxes are there and how many eggs are left?
7 ÷ 6 = 1, 1 left; 15 ÷ 6 = 2, 3 left; 32 ÷ 6 = 5, 2 left. The answer is 125 R 2: 125 full boxes and 2 eggs left. Check: 125 × 6 + 2 = 752.