Quotients and Remainders in Word Problems

Grade 445 minutes5.CE.1 The student will estimate, represent, solve, and justify solutions to single-step and multistep contextual problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with whole numbers.

Learning Objective

I can use division to solve word problems and understand what the whole number quotient and remainder represent in the context of the problem.

Practice Questions

This lesson includes 7 practice questions to reinforce learning.

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1. Explain in your own words what a remainder is in division.

2. Solve: 38 ÷ 7 = ? What is the quotient and what is the remainder?

3. Sarah has 27 stickers to share equally among her 5 friends. How many stickers will each friend get? How many stickers will Sarah have left over?

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