Interpreting Remainders

Lisa is putting 29 juice bottles into coolers for a picnic. Each cooler holds 6 juice bottles. How many coolers will Lisa need to hold all the juice bottles?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

Daniel has 120 baseball cards. How many cards will he have left over if he gives his seven friends the same amount of cards?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainders

• The remainder is the answer

A sewing class has 205 yards of fabric to make quilts. Each quilt requires 7 yards of fabric. How much will remain after all the quilts are made?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

There are 139 fourth-grade students going on a field trip. The school is using vans that can hold 9 students. How many vans are needed for the field trip?

• Add 1 to the quotient for the answer

• Ignore the remainder

• The remainder is the answer

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

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

37 ÷ 5 =

• 7 r 2

• 5 r 2

• 4 r 4

• 6 r 7

39 divided by 4

• 6

• 9 r 3

• 3 r 9

The fourth grade is going on a field trip. There are 126 students. Each bus can hold 48 students. How many buses will the teacher need to carry all of the students?

How will you use the remainder?

• Write as a fraction

• Ignore it

• Round up

35 ÷ 4 =

• 8

• 8 R 2

• 8 R 3

• 8 R 8