Division A collection of division word problems

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DivisionA collection of division word
problems grade 4 Created by Debbie
Anthes Consolidated School District 4
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Teacher Page

• Content Math
• Grade Level fourth
• Creator Debbie Anthes
• Curriculum/MAP Number Sense

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What is Division?
The mathematical definition of division is to
separate a quantity of things into equal groups.
It is actually a shortcut for subtraction. If the
problem asks what is 6 divided by 2. What it
is really saying is how many sets of 2 can be
subtracted out of 6?
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The division problem can be written in two
different ways
6 2 3
or 3
2 6
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An example of a division word problem Mary
bought 8 plants. She wants to plant two in each
container. How many flower pots will she need?
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Mary will need four flower pots.
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Mrs. Scott bought a box of pencils and wanted to
give each cougar paw winner two pencils. The box
had 25 pencils in it. How many students could she
reward with pencils?
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There are enough pencils for twelve students to
each have two with one pencil left over.
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This problem would be written
12 children with one extra pencil
2 25 - 24 1
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Bill needs plates for his birthday party. There
are 10 plates in each package. He is inviting 34
friends to his party. How many packages of plates
should he buy?
1 package 10 plates 2 packages 20 plates
3 packages 30 platesHe still needs four more
plates. Bill must buy 4 packages of plates and
he will have 6 plates extra.
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Extra Practice or Quiz

• There are 25 pieces of candy in the package. Sam
  and his 5 friends are going to share the candy.
  How many pieces will each friend receive?
• The fourth grade classes are going on a field
  trip. Mrs. Smith needs to order the buses. Each
  bus can seat 36 students. There is a total of 85
  fourth graders. How many buses do they need?

(answers on next slide)
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• 25 5 5 pieces of candy for each child.
• 36 36 _36__
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• Two buses would only have 72 seats, so they will
  need three buses and there will be 23 extra seats